Hogwarts Daily News Issue #105
written by Lucy Peña
Read an interview with Celeste Evergreen, one of our managers! Learn about Día de Los Muertos a Mexican tradition! Take our own very Weasley Quiz, and find if your answers were right! Now you can read about the new Quidditch Through the Ages Illustrated Edition! Today we have over 17 articles make sure to read them all!
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Día de los muertos (The Day of the dead) Mexican tradition
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Día de los muertos (The Day of the dead) Mexican tradition
As some of you know, I’m Mexican! In Mexico, we have a tradition called Día de los Muertos, which is Spanish for The Day of The Dead. It’s a day we’re we honor people who have passed away. It’s not dark, it’s colorful and joyful! We believe that they are still with us, and this day is for them!
We put ofrendas, which are adorned with calaveritas de azúcar (sugar or chocolate fun skulls with the person name), the persons we honor’s foto, papel picado (which is colorful paper with different images), candles, pan de muerto (delicious sweet sugar bread), Cempasuchil which is the traditional flower (pronounced Cempasuchil), a cross, and much more!
It’s really a day where we stay united by our family. Even with those who are no longer here. I recommend you search photo, because it’s replay picturesque!
A special thing of Día de los muertos, are calaveritas. These are happy, fun, and joyful, poems, that talk about the dead. They are not sinister nor anything like that, it’s a fun explanation of death.
The Catrina, is a women who is represented as death. She is very beautiful, and colorful!
This tradition dates back to ancient Mexican civilizations, when Spain conquered Mexico they let the native people have this tradition because they simply couldn’t prohibit all of their traditions.
This day is celebrated November 1 and 2, it was about less than a week ago, but the spirit remains in this article, since in the last we celebrated Halloween. I hope you guys liked this Día de los muertos article! If you’d like more Mexican articles, please owl me!
-By Lucy Peña, proud Mexican, and writer
