halloween  

Hi Triplejazz,

I don't have any experience with ghosts or other supernaturals but I've heard so much about this when i was still a child. My grandparents used to share ghost stories with us--me and my siblings, and only now that i realized their reason for doing so-- since we're all scared, nobody wants to go out and play at night, made us sleep early, and tried to be good kids. A cool way of disciplining kids in the province.

I also had the experience of "pangangaluluwa" practice. We prepared food and offered it to our departed loved ones with our relatives singing songs for them. Then the family members and the "pangangaluluwa" singers eat together for dinner. I am not sure if this is still happening nowadays in our province...

Interesting topic,i am a chinese,but i am so interested in halloween,although just know it from books or Tv,i don't believe in ghosts,but i believe in God.i just felt so horrible when i watched some horrible movies about ghosts,but i never think it was really happened!

Hello triplejazzm. Happy Hallowe'en. We do not have this festival in our country---China, but we have a similar festival for the dead in the middle of lunar July. Every family will get together for a big dinner and place a bowl and a pair of chopsticks for the dead family members on the table in memory of them. Of course, we have a Tomb-Sweeping Day on April 5th. They are both similar to some degree, but the latter is a little different because people would burn some paper money for the dead to use on that day before their tombs. As to the latter, people would do the same outside their house without going to the tombs...

Hi triplejazz,

When I was a kid I didn't really observe Halloween, I mean not the way the westerners do. I know this is a special day for remembering our departed loved ones. I guess this is why we always think of this day as the day of ghosts and other creatures like zombies, aswang, vampires,etc. I don't like ghost stories but I seem to enjoy watching them during the Halloween week. It's like the day is incomplete without experiencing the scary stuff - real or just for fun.