Happy All Soul's Day! / ¡Feliz Día de los Muertos!

[Savonarola]

Does anyone do anything special for today, or live in an region where today is celebrated?

Being the culturally sensitive person that I am, I plan to watch Blue Demon Movies tonight.   

[Duque de Bragança]

Bonne Fête des Morts à tous !

[Liep]

Glædelig allehelgensdag!

[Archy]

We came together with the family. To remember my late grandfather with pie and coffee or sodas. Still need to go to the graveyards though.

[Martinus]

In Poland, people visit graves of relatives on All Saints Holiday (1 November) and All Soul's Day (2 November), but only 1 November is a national holiday.

Cemeteries can look quite stunning on a misty All Saints' Eve:





While the Catholic church has of course appropriated the holiday, it has an older, pre-Christian origins - if you played Witcher 3, the "ghost summoning" ritual there is directly inspired by the pagan tradition.

[Admiral Yi]

Happy death cult, you wacky Papists.

And Liep.

[Valmy]

While the Catholic church has of course appropriated the holiday, it has an older, pre-Christian origins - if you played Witcher 3, the "ghost summoning" ritual there is directly inspired by the pagan tradition.

That a fact? Color me skeptical. I mean in Mexico they took similar rituals and applied them to this day but it was not a previously existing holiday. Or if it was it was one hell of a coincidence.

[Liep]

And Liep.

Sure when the French and Spanish do it it's fine. Scandiphobe!

[Razgovory]

While the Catholic church has of course appropriated the holiday, it has an older, pre-Christian origins - if you played Witcher 3, the "ghost summoning" ritual there is directly inspired by the pagan tradition.

That a fact? Color me skeptical. I mean in Mexico they took similar rituals and applied them to this day but it was not a previously existing holiday. Or if it was it was one hell of a coincidence.

About the Witcher?  I have no idea.  About the pagan stuff, no.  See, this is what happens when you start reading books on anthropology from a hundred years ago.  You are likely to have death related holidays across cultures because death is part of the human condition.