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A HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN AND ITS TRADITIONS!!

  Halloween, as we know it has been a tradition in our country for many years, but have you ever wondered where it came from?  The Celts, or people from and around Ireland, the United Kingdom and Northern France around 2000 years ago had their new year as November the 1st.  So that meant  the end of the year for them, the time when the harvest was over and the start of the long cold winter was October 31st.  Due to the facts that many people died in the winter, and the living world and the dead opened up.  On this day the dead could invade the world of the living and priests would be able to predict the future and talk to the dead more easily.  They would dress up and at a large central bonfire, pay homage to their Celtic deities, sacrificing animals to the gods.  They would also try to tell each others fortunes while dressed up in costumes of animal skins and heads.   These festivals of sorts was known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in).    Later on after the area has

HAUNTED HOSPITALS PROVEN TO BE, THE MOST!! THE SCARIEST!!! PLACES ON EARTH!!!

   Most people do not realize it, but there are a number of haunted hospitals given the honor of the most scariest places on Earth!!!  There are several hospitals that are considered at the top of the heap of the most haunted institutions of their kind.  True ghost stories, unexplained phenomenon, and ghost pictures and videos have been acquired in these places within the hospitals that are claimed to be the top haunts.  Each and every single day, someone takes their last breath in a hospital somewhere.  Is it possible that these souls emerge from the physical body and linger around these medical facilities, not knowing which way to go, or even what has happened to them?  Here you will learn why haunted hospitals are deemed the scariest places on Earth! Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky    The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky has been deemed as one of the most haunted places in the U.S.  In the late 1800's and early 1900's, the dis

THE VIRGIN DEL CARMEN FEAST FROM MARBELLA, SPAIN!

  The Virgin del Carmen Feast is about a feast of marine tradition at Marbella town that ends on July 16th (the Virgin Festival). The Virgen del Carmen, Saint of the Sea and of Fishermen, is one of the sacred headlines, which awakens more devotion among neighbors in the region. The whole town gathers in the streets and beaches every summer to see the processional tour of the virgin by land and sea.    A week before this date and in the Chapel of the Fishing Port; a mass is celebrated where the Sisterhood Chorus participates and the Virgin of the City together with the Marine Virgin are shown and toured every year. The Marine Virgin is taken out from a cave located at 12 meters depth in the proximity of Poste de la Mina (El Cable). At the end of the act, the Golden Anchor is awarded to the eldest retired fisherman.    This same day of July 16th the maritime procession of the virgin is celebrated, she leaves the Fishing Port towards Banus Port and back to the Sport P