Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’
Halloween Edition: OTP’s Guide to Crazy Cuban Witchery
Forget Jesus, Moses, Mary, the Apostles, Aristotle, Madonna and the Seven Dwarfs, in Cuba, religion takes on a whole different level of crazy you thought only existed in old episodes of Tales from the Crypt. Old, cigar-tokin’ women who spit rum in your face as they yell “Aché!”, men that are possessed by the God [...]
OTP’s Guide to Halloween in Asia 2010
Last year, OTP gave you the low down on how South Americans decorate skulls, sleep with the dead and wear yellow panties on their versions of Halloween. This year, it’s all about pumpkin over rice, as we focus on how Asia gets sugar high for the big, spooky day. While all of these cultures have autumn [...]
Obsession with the Devil: How Latin America Celebrates Death
If any of you missed Halloween this year, let us break down what likely happened: the girls walked around in no more than a bra and panties and pretended they were cops, sailors, nurses or some sort of pre-packaged ho-in-a-bag (maybe the origin of the expression “ho-bag”). Now the guys, well they thought they were [...]
