Hallow’s Eve & Dia de los Muertos

What better way to celebrate Halloween than by discovering all about the days where the barrier between the living and dead is at its thinnest? Take out your pumpkin and start carving - we've got a spooky (and silly) episode!

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Music by Donald Guzzi & Artwork by Alexis Torres

Links to research:

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain

https://dayofthedead.holiday/history/

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/day-of-the-dead

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-history-of-trick-or-treating-and-how-it-became-a-halloween-tradition#:~:text=In%20modern%20times%2C%20trick%2Dor,that%20fell%20on%20November%201.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/trick-or-treat-history

https://www.history.com/news/history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-irish-origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingy_Jack

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/10/the-origins-of-halloween-traditions/

https://poets.org/poem/halloween

https://www.today.com/life/holidays/history-of-halloween-rcna34503