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Halloween in mexico

10/23/2014

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Halloween (Dia de las Brujas)  has been celebrated in Mexico for the last 40 years.  It is mainly known as a children's holiday.  Bread is baked and candy is made in the shape of skull and crossbones, a casket or a skeleton.  The children run through the streets with lanters and ask for coins.  When the children go to houses to ask for candy instead of saying trick or treat they say "queremos Halloween" which means we want Halloween.  Many stores manufacture and sell scary masks, plastic jack o lantern buckets, makeup, spider webs, witch hats and costumes.  The costumes and masks that the children wear on Halloween are fairly lighthearted.  One of the most popular masks sold is the face of a ghost similar to the movie Scream.  Some of the other popular items that are bought are Frankenstein costumes and fake blood.  La Catrina which is a female skeleton dressed in formal clothing is a common decoration that is used.    If you ever visit Mexico during this time you will be enchanted with the magic that surrounds this holiday.  Even though it is just one day the impression that it will make will last much longer then that. 

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    Jenn Gragert - Editor


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