If you were to put out some of the more morbid Halloween decorations in May, you would get some strange looks and concerned neighbors. However, you put them out in October, and no one thinks twice.
This first was recently taken in a local (southern Oregon) supermarket - where the Mexican Day of the Dead is celebrated as a sister festival to Halloween - along with its wonderfully colorful 'Calaveras' or skeleton masks and figures -
And speaking of Calaveras, here are a pair of tiny dolls/figurines I bought in Mexico City - called 'los Novios' aka 'the Newlyweds', they are a popular part of Mexican Day-of-the-Dead mythology, with the notion that dead skeletons can fall in love and get married too -
The undead/Zombie mannequin in his bright orange Oregon State sweatshirt was standing proudly in front of a store in business district of downtown Klamath Falls, Oregon -
If you were to put out some of the more morbid Halloween decorations in May, you would get some strange looks and concerned neighbors. However, you put them out in October, and no one thinks twice.
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