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Oct 15, 2026
Punkie Night's Hollow Lanterns
In Somerset, children still carve lanterns from mangel-wurzel beets and parade them through the dark on the last Thursday of October, a custom older and stranger than Halloween's pumpkin.
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Oct 11, 2026
Candles for the Forefathers
A look at Dziady, the Slavic rite of laying food, drink, and candlelight for the ancestral dead, and its place among the old year's turn toward winter.
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