"...the Day of the Dead was not so very different from Halloween. Both shared a common European legacy as well as a dynamic fusion of pre-Christian and Christian belief. If this is the case, then their differences may be grounded not only in the peculiarities of that syncretism, but also in the ways the two holidays subsequently developed in the New World...By the time Halloween was transported to North America, its links to the Catholic festival of All Souls’ were attenuated, seriously fractured by the Protestant Reformation."
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