Date:  Wed, 2 Nov 1994 18:39:29 -0800

From:  Birrell Walsh <birrell[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WELL.SF.CA.US>

Subject: Re: dia de los muertos



So:



Date     SPAIN    MEXICO   USAGringo



Oct. 31   The Dead    ---    (Monsters)

Nov. 1    Saints    Saints    ---

Nov. 2     ---    The Dead   ---



Is this the right calendar?



Of course, Halloween is Samhain, one of the four Celtic sacred days, so

'tis no surprise it did not survive in Spain. St. Patrick, of Ireland

fame, was a Spanish Celt. But the Muslim invasion probably wiped Spanish

Celtic customs even more thoroughly than did the Anglo-Saxon/Viking

invasions of the British Isles.