Halloween: Art
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! For more on the Day of the Dead in Mexico, see my previous post: Día de los Muertos …
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Saints, Souls, and Haints: More Soul Cakes
About All Souls’ Day (November 2), Sir James George Frazer wrote detailed notes in The Golden Bough: a Study in …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Soul Cakes
Trick-or-treating may well have originated in the old custom of “souling,” as people went from house to house, begging ( …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cider and Curds
About All Souls’ Day (November 2), Sir James George Frazer wrote in The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Honey Cakes
Some interesting comments from 1845 about All Souls’ Day, by Charles Knight in Penny Magazine of the Society for the …
