Halloween’s influence is transforming popular festivities around Día de los Muertos and its ceremonial customs in rural and urban areas of Mexico in some fascinating ways.
Halloween itself is derived from the efforts of the European church to obliterate Celtic culture by declaring the dates of Samhain as a christian holy time, then incorporating and bastardizing many of the “pagan” (pre-church) practices.
Doing the same to Dia de los Muertos is english tradition.
Halloween itself is derived from the efforts of the European church to obliterate Celtic culture by declaring the dates of Samhain as a christian holy time, then incorporating and bastardizing many of the “pagan” (pre-church) practices. Doing the same to Dia de los Muertos is english tradition.