Memoirs of a Halloween Enthusiast
Abstract
Halloween is growing in popularity in the United Kingdom. This is a personal reflection on the importance of Halloween as a tradition on both an individual and community level, based on memories of Halloween from childhood into adulthood. It proposes that in popular culture Halloween can be read as increasingly removed from the religious or the spiritual. On an individual basis that can be experienced as a secular ritual centred around performance, dress up and adopted alternative personas.
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