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2. In the US, we get rabbits, eggs, and voter suppression for easter, but in Sweden their Easter baskets are full of coffee, witchcraft, and universal healthcare!
Here’s a delightfully strange death ritual involving bees and funeral food 🐝
📷: 1: Image by Nikolay Tolmachev 2: Rima Staines, footage from Bee Movie and Ru Paul’s Drag Race
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- 🔥 birds about to do an arson
-some other birds who possibly did a MURDER 🐦
-wherever they’re going it’s clearly haunted af (can I come, too?) I really want to read a story based on this card because there’s a lot going on👻
4. However, there’s a lesser known and darker manifestation of the holiday that includes a figure called Dark or Bloody Lucy, who I believe primarily appears in Bavaria and Austria.
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It was once believed that during the time around the winter solstice, as on Halloween, the veil between the living & the dead thinned.
With this in mind, here’s a thread dedicated to death + Christmas superstitions 💀🎄
(GIF by lakritzellaz)
3. 🦃 Turkeys came from Mexico. Mexica/Aztecs served turkey at funeral feasts and used it as burial offerings.
There was also a plague god named Chalchiuhtotolin, which translates to PRECIOUS NIGHT TURKEY
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4. Modern Dia de Muertos observances in the US began as a direct response to social & political injustices, practiced as an act of resistance & demand for change - carry on this legacy.
Appreciate, celebrate, mourn, and then ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACTIVELY DISMANTLE.
me, getting the notification from water & power about getting our power shut off several times this week because of the heatwave
1. Excited to share this NEW ARTICLE from game dev @gabbydarienzo on @OrderGoodDeath today. Some of you may know Gabby as the creator of the #DeathPositive game A Mortician’s Tale, & host of @PlayDeadCast
Remembering mothers who have lost a child to violence.
By artist Tavo Santiago
#DiaDeLasMadres #MothersDay