El Dia de Los Muertos (was: Re: SC - OT,OOP, But Funny)

[Bernadette Crumb]

- -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com>

> One of the traditions 
> is that the early Celts carved images of "spirits" into turnips, which led 
> eventually to the American practice of carving jack-o-lanterns from 
pumpkins, 
> and the hispanic practice of the ghoulish pastries.

We still do this in Wales.  We carve swedes (rutabagas) instead of pumpkins.  
We also traditionally have "bobbing for apples" in water and trying to bite 
an apple on a string as games in "Halloween" parties.  I don't know the 
origin of those particular rituals though.

Elysant 
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