Hallow’een, Hallowed Eve, Holy Evening, October 31st.
Which is the night before All Saints Day, November 1st.
Which is the day before All Souls Day, November 2nd.
Which is the day that Mexico celebrates as el Día de Los Muertos, The Day of the Dead!
Meso-american history is full of skulls. 
Near the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, I saw this dancer dressed as a skeleton with an extraordinary feathered headdress above his masked skull. 
This love for skeletons and skulls has carried on into the present, as this up-dated skull on a hoarding demonstrates. 
El Gato Calavera, the Cat Skull, an alternative foro for young musicians in Mexico City.
Caterina, a stylish ceramic skeleton with a hat in San Angel, a suburb of Mexico City. 
A couple of well-decorated sugar skulls for munching on.
More on Mexico.
