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Grieving and Halloween

The role of culture in remembering our dead

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Stefan de Villiers
Oct 29, 2022
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Figures dancing in silhouette around a bonfire

During my teen years in South Africa in the 1990s, Halloween wasn’t something we celebrated particularly. Most South Africans would probably say Halloween is a North American holiday, for North American kids to get dressed up as their favourite scary movie characters. During my university years, after I’d moved to Canada, I had the experience of vacatio…

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