My Last Day In Mexico

My family and I grew up in Mexico with a mother was a very strict catholic. She would take us to church and to all sorts of events the church we went to sponsored. Also, Halloween is not a holiday in Mexico. Instead, we celebrate the Day of the Dead and the Day of All Saints. Every year, during these two days, my family and I would go to our local cemetery and place marigold flowers and food on the graves on our ancestors. It was a tradition we kept doing until we moved here to Glenwood Springs. Arriving to the United States was a bit of a culture shock. A lot of things were different. One of those things was the celebration of Halloween. On the last day of October, kids would dress up as many different things and go ask for candy. Of course,
I don’t mind seeing the different costumes and accessories stores put up for Halloween. When Halloween night comes around, I turn off the light in front of my door and close the blinds around the house. I don’t like telling kids I don’t have candy so I make my house look as if it is empty. There have been a few years where I had bought candy to give out to the kids, but that was just because of my brother, who is very pro Halloween. Now, however, I just try to avoid the holiday as much as I can. Currently, my mother and I are fighting a battle against my brother, who wants our little sister to celebrate Halloween. Currently, our little sister is stuck in the middle. She wants to go out with her friends to get a lot of candy, but she knows that celebrating Halloween is not good for a Catholic. My mom has been raising her to be a good Catholic, so she understands the wrongs of Halloween. It is a battle we have every year, one that my brother loses every year. In the future, I hope that we no longer have to fights this battle over Halloween and that we can all just come to terms with the fact that some people celebrate Halloween and some
They had a pagan festival that they celebrated over 2000 years ago. . The festival the Cletics where celebrating at this time was called Samhain. This festival was usually held at the end of the harvest season. They believed that during this time, October 31, the dead could come back to the world of the living and that the living could communicate with the dead. During this time, some of the Celtics would were ghoulish costumes so that the dead would think they were one of their own and leave them alone. Besides the reasons given above, Halloween masks and costumes were used to hide one’s attendance at pagan festivals or, as in traditional shamanism (mediated by a witch doctor or pagan priest) and other forms of animism, to change the personality of the wearer to allow for communication with the spirit world. Here, costumes could be worn to ward off evil spirits. On the other hand, the costume wearer might use a mask to try to attract and absorb the power of the animal represented by the mask and costume worn. According to this scenario, Halloween costumes may have originated with the Celtic Druid ceremonial participants, who wore animal heads and skins to acquire the strength of a particular animal. This is where the idea of costumes originates. As for the tradition of trick or treating, this was created when Catholic priests in Europe adopted the local pagan practices. They would go door