Editing All Souls' Day (section)

== Popular customs ==
On All Souls Day, Christians of various denominational backgrounds, including Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans and Methodists, among others, often help one another clean the graves of cemeteries, along with adorning them with flowers.<ref name="UCA2014"/> The General Secretary of the [[Church of North India]] described the [[ecumenism]] present in All Souls Day, stating that "This coming together shows Christian unity".<ref name="UCA2014"/> With respect to the economy, vendors "sell flowers, candles and incense sticks" to those visiting the graveyards, who are Christians of the Catholic and Protestant traditions.<ref name="UCA2014"/> Prayer services with representatives from different Christian denomination for All Souls Day are held at graveyards for those visiting them.<ref name="TOI2012"/><ref name="Vatican2015"/>

All Souls Day emphasizes "the Christian belief in bodily resurrection and eternal life".<ref name="Deshpande2023"/> Some All Souls' Day traditions are associated with the doctrine of the poor souls of [[purgatory]] (in Roman Catholicism) or the [[Intermediate state (Christianity)|intermediate state]] (in Protestantism and Orthodoxy). Bell tolling is done in honour of the dead. Lighting candles serves variously to kindle a light for the poor souls, honour the dead, as well as to ward off demons.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Burning of Blessed Candles is Beneficial To the Suffering Souls |url=https://friendsofthepoorsouls.blogspot.com/2006/04/burning-of-blessed-candles-is.html |publisher=The Friends of the Poor Souls |access-date=2 November 2024 |language=en |date=4 April 2006}}</ref><ref name="CarterPetro1998">{{cite book|last1=Carter|first1=Albert Howard |last2=Petro|first2=Jane Arbuckle|title=Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned|year=1998|publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania Press]]|language=en|isbn=978-0-8122-1517-5|page=100}}</ref> [[Soul cakes]] are given to children going souling—going from door to door to [[prayer for the dead|pray for the dead]] (cf. ''[[trick-or-treating]]'', ''[[Pão-por-Deus]]'').{{sfn|Schousboe|2012|pp=10–13}}<ref name=Mosteller>{{cite book|last=Mosteller|first=Angie |title=Christian Origins of Halloween |date=2 July 2014|publisher=Rose Publishing |isbn=978-1-59636-535-3|quote=In Protestant regions souling remained an important occasion for soliciting food and money from rich neighbors in preparation for the coming cold and dark months.}}</ref>

===Europe===
All Souls' Day is celebrated in many European countries with vigils, candles, the decoration of graves, and special prayers as well as many regional customs.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} Examples of regional customs include leaving cakes for departed loved ones on the table and keeping the room warm for their comfort in [[Tyrol (state)|Tirol]] and the custom in [[Brittany]], where people flock to the cemeteries at nightfall to kneel, bareheaded, at the graves of their loved ones and anoint the hollow of the [[tomb stone|tombstone]] with [[holy water]] or to pour libations of milk on it. At bedtime, supper is left on the table for the souls.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} All Souls' Day is known in [[Maltese language|Maltese]] as ''Jum il-Mejtin'', and is accompanied a traditional supper including roasted pig, based on a custom of letting a pig loose on the streets with a bell around its neck, to be fed by the entire neighborhood and cooked on that day to feed the poor.<ref name=ToM /> In [[Linz]], funereal musical pieces known as [[aequale]]s were played from tower tops on All Souls' Day and the evening before.<ref name=triton /> In the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]] All Souls' Day is called Dušičky, or "little souls". Traditionally, candles are left on graves on Dušičky.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Strašíková |first1=Lucie |title=Dušičky – čas symbolického prolínání světa živých a mrtvých |url=https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/1435848-dusicky-cas-symbolickeho-prolinani-sveta-zivych-a-mrtvych |website=ČT24 |publisher=Česká televize |access-date=30 October 2021 |language=cs |archive-date=30 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030144504/https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/domaci/1435848-dusicky-cas-symbolickeho-prolinani-sveta-zivych-a-mrtvych |url-status=live }}</ref> In Sicily and other regions of southern Italy, All Souls' Day is celebrated as the ''Festa dei Morti'' or ''U juornu rii morti'', the "Commemoration of the Dead" or the "Day of the Dead", which according to Joshua Nicolosi of the ''Sicilian Post'' could be seen "halfway between Christian and pagan traditions".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sicilian Post: The Day of the Dead in Sicily|date=November 2018 |url=https://www.sicilianpost.it/en/the-day-of-the-dead-in-sicily-between-life-and-the-afterlife/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129162641/https://www.sicilianpost.it/en/the-day-of-the-dead-in-sicily-between-life-and-the-afterlife/ |archive-date=29 November 2020 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Palermo Street Food - The Sicilian Day of the Dead|date=November 2014 |url=http://www.palermostreetfood.com/blog/2014/11/1/the-sicilian-day-of-the-dead|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330122721/http://www.palermostreetfood.com:80/blog/2014/11/1/the-sicilian-day-of-the-dead |archive-date=30 March 2016 }}</ref> Families visit and clean grave sites, home altars are decorated with family photos and votive candles, and children are gifted a special basket or ''cannistru'' of chocolates, pomegranate, and other gifts from their ancestors.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dooid Magazine - All Souls Day Traditions in Sicily|date=12 October 2019 |url=https://magazine.dooid.it/en/interests-en/events/all-souls-day-traditions-sicily/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102175021/https://magazine.dooid.it/en/interests-en/events/all-souls-day-traditions-sicily/ |archive-date=2 November 2021 }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Because of the gifting of sugary sweets and the emphasis on sugar puppet decorations, the Commemoration Day has spurred local Sicilian events such as the ''Notte di Zucchero'' ("Night of Sugar") in which communities celebrate the dead.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Notte di Zucchero|url=http://nottedizucchero.it/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101070212/http://nottedizucchero.it/ |archive-date=1 November 2020 }}</ref> {{Lang|it|[[Piada dei morti]]}} ({{Literal translation|piada of the dead}}), a sweet [[focaccia]] topped with [[raisin]]s, [[almond]]s, [[walnut]]s, and [[pine nut]]s,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Lazzari |first=Martina |date=29 October 2023 |title=Piada dei morti, preparazione e curiosità sulla dolce "piadina" romagnola |trans-title=Piada dei morti: Preparation and curiosity about the sweet Romagnol "piadina" |url=https://www.riminitoday.it/social/piada-dei-morti-preparazione-e-curiosita-sulla-dolce-piadina-romagnola.html |access-date=17 February 2024 |website=RiminiToday |language=it}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=31 October 2017 |title=Piada dei morti ricetta dolce facile romagnolo per il 2 Novembre |trans-title=Easy recipe for sweet Romagnol piada dei morti for 2 November |url=https://blog.giallozafferano.it/loti64/piada-dei-morti-ricetta-facile/ |access-date=17 February 2024 |website=Giallo Zafferano |language=it-IT}}</ref> is traditionally eaten in November for All Souls' Day in the environs of [[Rimini]], in [[Emilia-Romagna]].<ref name=":3" />

===Indian subcontinent===
[[File:Hallowmas India 1.jpg|thumb|A Christian woman in India decorates a grave with flower petals]]
In the [[Indian subcontinent]] (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), Christians hold prayer services in which they pray for the faithful departed, especially remembering their loved ones.<ref name="Deshpande2023"/><ref name="Vatican2015"/> Christians of various denominations visit cemeteries and adorn graves with flower petals, garlands, candles and incense sticks.<ref name="Deshpande2023"/><ref name="Vatican2015"/>

===Philippines===
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In the Philippines, Hallow mas is variously called "''Undás''", "''Todos los Santos''" (Spanish, "All Saints"), and sometimes "''Araw ng mga Patay / Yumao''" ([[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], "Day of the dead / those who have passed away"), which incorporates All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.{{Dubious|reason=As at [[Day of the Dead]], it's confusing whether "Undás" is more than one day|date=November 2022}} Filipinos traditionally observe this day by visiting the family dead to clean and repair their tombs. Offerings of prayers, flowers, candles,<ref name="guardian-world-saints" /> and food. [[Chinese Filipinos]] additionally burn [[joss stick|incense]] and ''[[joss paper|kim]]''. Many also spend the day and ensuing night holding reunions at the cemetery with feasts and merriment.