Tag: samhain
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Winter Festivals
I do believe that in the previous official post, I promised a discussion about winter festivals. With the 2018 having now officially started for most, I must remind you that for many, it still hasn’t… or that it’s not even 2018. Calendars are different for many cultures, and that’s not so new… in 18th century,…
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Halloween
We have reached Halloween. We’ve gone through vampires, werewolves, ghosts and witches and anthropological debate to do it, but here it is, and I hope you have a nice evening planned. Mine is going to be very feline (how witchy of me…;) ), with my partner and myself and our nine felines watching a film,…
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Anthropology and psychology of fear
We are slowly reaching the night of Halloween, and I bet most of you are being bombarded by reruns of horror films, skulls, blood cocktails (I’m serious – there is a huge amount of Halloween themed cocktails and mocktails out there, and some of the best recipes can be found on Pinterest, so if you…
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Ghosts
Because we missed a day, today’s post is a double post, with ghosts on the tail of werewolves (yep, I had to. 🙂 ’tis the season XD). Like the vampires and werewolves, ghosts are a theme that pops up around Halloween until you can’t move for them; but at least with ghosts, there is a…