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The Huron Feast of the Dead was a mortuary custom of the Wyandot people of what is today central Ontario, Canada, which involved the disinterment of deceased relatives from their initial individual graves followed by their reburial in a final communal grave. A time for both mourning and celebration, the custom became spiritually and culturally ...
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is a 1991 collection of short stories in the horror genre by American author Thomas Ligotti. [1] [2] The book was Ligotti's second short story collection to be published, following Songs of a Dead Dreamer.
The communion motet for the Feast of the Holy Innocents is the text from Matthew 2:18 (citing Jeremiah 31:15) Vox in Rama. This was set polyphonically by a number of composers of the renaissance and baroque, including Jacob Clemens non Papa, Giaches de Wert, and Heinrich Schütz (in German).
What Moves the Dead What Feasts at Night is a 2024 horror novel by American author Ursula Vernon , writing under the pen name T. Kingfisher. The novel is a standalone sequel to the 2022 novella What Moves the Dead .
An abridged audio book version of The Feast of the Drowned, read by David Tennant, was released in July 2006 by BBC Audiobooks. Also included was an interview with the author by David Darlington. The audio book version was given away free in two parts with two consecutive issues of Radio Times in December 2006 and January 2007. These versions ...
Days of the Dead / Los Días de Muertos. San Francisco CA: Pomegranate 1998 ISBN 0764906194; Haley, Shawn D.; Fukuda, Curt. Day of the Dead: When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca. Berhahn Books, 2004. ISBN 1-84545-083-3; Lane, Sarah and Marilyn Turkovich, Días de los Muertos/Days of the Dead. Chicago 1987. Lomnitz, Claudio. Death and the Idea of ...
In her third novel, “Almost Surely Dead,” Amina Akhtar departs from trends and fashion to sink deep into a missing-person mystery with humorous cynicism and an increasingly creepy edge.
Bon Festival, with candle lanterns, celebrated at the Albuquerque Bridge, Sasebo, Japan Festival of the Dead or Feast of Ancestors [1] is held by many cultures throughout the world in honor or recognition of deceased members of the community, generally occurring after the harvest in August, September, October, or November.