As someone who celebrates Dia de Muertos (note there is no “los” – that’s how native Hispanics refer to it), prepares special foods to “share” with our dead and makes pan de muerto at home – most of us have zero issues with Halloween and readily participate in both.
And it’s hard to thing of a much more pagan (in the traditional term) than Dia de Muertos – it has so ingrained and hard to eradicate by the Spanish colonists that they eventually had to incorporate it as a Christian holiday.
I only got one- age 9/10 (Grade 3 to 4). Normally school teachers didn’t have the foresight/continuity to assign them, but one of them did. I think I read a kid’s version of the ChineseCcinderella (maybe inspiration for the more known version?)
I still pull an “all nighter read” about once or twice per year. I don’t read as much as I used to but some books are still that gripping.
Takes all sorts, doesn’t it? I like a Tale of Two Cities. Also liked Les Miserables, Don Quixote, and a few other “epic” size books.
From the classics, Crime and Punishment was my bane. Didn’t like the character, style, or message. Because it was part of a book club tried to push trough but just ditched the whole set together.
As someone who celebrates Dia de Muertos (note there is no “los” – that’s how native Hispanics refer to it), prepares special foods to “share” with our dead and makes pan de muerto at home – most of us have zero issues with Halloween and readily participate in both.
And it’s hard to thing of a much more pagan (in the traditional term) than Dia de Muertos – it has so ingrained and hard to eradicate by the Spanish colonists that they eventually had to incorporate it as a Christian holiday.