Why Halloween feels so different this year
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Halloween this year feels different than the macabre, plasticked-up horror film version of the holiday that can run on repeat this time of year (cue spooky laugh here), writes Tess Taylor. She says it feels more like Samhain, the Celtic festival where the grave mounds open where the light shifts and time thins, and where people might leave a bit of food out for their ghosts and honor their ancestors.
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