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*Ghoulish Guide to Hallowe'en / Dia de Los Muertos & All Saint’s Day in Paris *
John and I once tried to travel from Italy to Paris on November 1, and found all the trains completely booked; it seems that all of Catholic Europe is travelling to visit relatives on All Saint's Day, and All Soul's Day.
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French to opt out of 'Le Halloween' *
Five years after it took France by storm in a whirlwind marketing drive launched by a French entrepreneur, “Le Halloween” looks set to perform its own disappearing act.
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Last-minute Halloween costumes and ideas, 2007 *
Here are my suggestions for this year. . .
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PM welcomes creatures of darkness *
Prime Minister Paul Martin and his wife Sheila handed out Halloween goodies to treat-or-treaters at 24 Sussex, in Ottawa yesterday.
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The music behind the mask *
'Fishes are caught with Hooks, Birds are ensnared with Nets, but Virgins with Masquerades," an 18th-century London paper declaimed, opposing the sweet corruption of that louche Venetian import.
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