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Halloween Around the World: How the Night of the Dead Is Marked Across Cultures - History, Traditions, and Recipes

Halloween Around the World: How the Night of the Dead Is Marked Across Cultures - History, Traditions, and Recipes

Ashcroft, Evelyn

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798161332474
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 10 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One night. Dozens of completely different traditions. Most of them are not Halloween.

On the last evening of October a child in Ohio rings a doorbell in a costume. In Kraków, a woman walks between rows of graves carrying a lantern, one of hundreds of thousands lit that week. In Oaxaca, a family finishes an altar three days in the making. In Manila, an entire household arrives at the cemetery with folding chairs and plans to stay the night. In Tokyo, thousands of young people in extraordinary costumes fill a street crossing for reasons connected to none of the above.

All of it happens within seventy-two hours. Almost none of it is the same thing.

This is the book that tells them apart.

Across fourteen chapters, it traces what is genuinely connected - and what merely shares a date - from the Celtic hillsides of Samhain to the candlelit cemeteries of central Europe and the costumed streets of east Asia.

Inside you will find:


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