The Catholic Church set the day apart for intercession for the souls in Purgatory, when prayers and masses were offered for their release from the suffering ...
In the Philippines, the tradition of Pangangaluwa sees children dressed in white sheets singing songs on Halloween night, asking for food as a tribute to lost souls.
“If you look at the Celtic lore that they recorded, some of it is genuinely very scary,” Morton tells TODAY.com. “Even now, some of the stories that the Celts told each other at Samhain are really, ...