Timeline

= **Timeline of Events** = = **Courtney and Brooke** = = **Day of the Dead "is a celebration that remembers and honors the departed by creating altars decorated with crafts, food and symbolic decorations."** =
 * = **People believe "that death is a transition from one life to another in different levels where communication exists between the living and the dead."** =

= **October 27th** = = **-The souls with no loving family are offered bread and water** =

=** October 28th **= = **-The souls that have murdered or hurt someone are also offered bread and water. The bread and water will be found outside of their houses or outside of a church.** = = = = **October 30th** = = **-The children, who die before they get baptized, return on this day.** = == = **October 31st** = = **-The children are called the little angels or angelitos** = = **-They return to their homes** = = **-The little angels follow the path of the marigolds home** = = **-Awaiting them at their house is their family with a bunch of food** = = =

= **November 1st** = = **-After the little angels eat they must be gone** = = **-This is an //All Saints Day// (Catholic Day Festival)** = = **-In some places this is the day that the children's souls return** = = **-To call the adults' spirit they ring a bell and the childrens' spirits leave and then the adults come** = = **-Children hosted at home** = = **-Adults at the cemetery** = = **-During the night they have candles set up all around** = = **-People pray, talk, and eat** = = **-Musicians walk around and play their favorite songs** = = **-The priest might say prayers with the family** = = **-They have special designs on their altars** = = = = **November 2nd** = = **- The Mummers with masks on would run around town and scare all the souls back to the land of the dead** = = **- All Souls Day** = = **- It is a Catholic Festival also** = = **- The living people will help the souls move into Heaven** = = **- The final day of the celebration** = = **- There is alot of music and dancing and celebration on this day** = = **- When it is done usually in the evening and all the souls must leave** = = **- If there are any left then they are chased back by the living** = = **- It is a very happy celebration remembering their loved ones** = = **- They have a whole bunch on rituals on this day** = = =

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