Today continues a variety of festivals honoring the dead, including day two of the Fet Ghede, and the ancient Lithuanian Velines.

Rastas mark the day as a holiday; it is the anniversary of the crowning of Ethiopian emperor Heile Selassie, aka Ras Tafari. You can read a biography of Selassie here.



Finally, a couple of Halloween stragglers:

The power of witches

Witchcraft trends need to be faced

Also: There are new symbols in the dictionary.