Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween
…nnium later. By a happy syncretic coincidence Samhain, the Celtic holiday, falls near All Souls Day and so we have Halloween. The Spanish Conquistadors in sixteenth-century Mexico found that they could conflate their holidays with Aztec observances for Mictecacihuatl, goddess of the underworld, and so we have Dia de los Muertos. In autumn the days get shorter and life begins to die and decompose, the leaves we crunch underfoot are the detritus of…
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