by Maledicta | Nov 4, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
Mexico isn’t the only country that sets a date with the dead. Around the world, different countries, cultures, and religions have unique relationships with their dead. And yet, there are plenty of festivals of the dead—which take place over the course of days,...
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities
Elvira Mondragón Garcia’s cranial creations range from the size of a gumball to the size of an actual human head! In the atrium of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, behind a row of stanchions, is an array of skulls made of compressed sugar....
by Maledicta | Nov 6, 2017 | Halloween 365
The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) is celebrated in central and southern Mexico on November 1st and 2nd. This interesting holiday is a hybrid of the modern Catholic holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days and the ancient traditions of the indigenous...
