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The official chronicler of Cartagena, José Sánchez Conesa, will deliver this Thursday, November 7, from 8 pm, the conference 'The traditions of the souls and their relationship with Halloween', at the headquarters of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, on Calle del Aire.
This activity, framed within the Modernist Fall 2019, is organized by the Association of Modernist Friends of Cartagena, in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena and the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country.
The conference deals with centuries-old Roman traditions of worship of ancestors in the home, which we can see in the house of Fortune, until the Celtic commemoration, of pre-Christian origin, which resulted in Halloween.
In the United States, this tradition came from Irish emigrants, in the middle of the 19th century.
In our region there is the custom, until the 70s, of hooping melons to form eyes, nose and mouth, and to illuminate them internally, as is now done with pumpkins.
Even in districts and neighborhoods of Cartagena, there are women who prepare an unoccupied bed at home to come to rest the souls of deceased relatives, between November 1 and 2.
Customs similar to the Celts and the Romans.
RECITAL TODAY WEDNESDAY
Within this same program of activities of the modernists, today Wednesday, November 6, at 8:00 p.m., a poetry recital will take place at the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, organized by Julia Moreno.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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