All Hallows Eve

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Originally Posted by brenda

'Dia de los Muertos' is officially on 2nd Nov it is the one day of the year when the spirits of the dead are able to walk amongst the living. Because the spirits are (supposedly) able to do this from midnight on 1st Nov so celebrations begin on the 1st. A feast is usually prepared to share with the spirits of relatives who have passed over, the centerpiece of the feat is the 'day of the dead cake' which is a really sweet, pretty sickly cake with jelly sweets in it.

Its not as widely celebrated in Spain (where is originated) as it is in Latin America and the U.S.

A word of advise. It's not nice to refer to the Spanish as Spics

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is this because the spanish have realised that the dead just aren't gonna turn up?

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Originally Posted by GepperRankins

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Originally Posted by brenda

'Dia de los Muertos' is officially on 2nd Nov it is the one day of the year when the spirits of the dead are able to walk amongst the living. Because the spirits are (supposedly) able to do this from midnight on 1st Nov so celebrations begin on the 1st. A feast is usually prepared to share with the spirits of relatives who have passed over, the centerpiece of the feat is the 'day of the dead cake' which is a really sweet, pretty sickly cake with jelly sweets in it.

Its not as widely celebrated in Spain (where is originated) as it is in Latin America and the U.S.

A word of advise. It's not nice to refer to the Spanish as Spics

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is this because the spanish have realised that the dead just aren't gonna turn up?

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No its because everytime a tradition is exported accross the Atlantic it morphs into a grotesquely inflated simulacra :P