Around the world on Halloween

For Filipinos, Halloween translates to a fun holiday where children—and children at heart—indulge on trick-or-treating and costume playing, as influenced by the country’s close ties with the Americans.

On the other hand, the occasion is also a religious tradition, which had been observed since the time of the Spaniards who brought Catholicism to these shores. So every year come All Saint’s Day, Filipino families remember their departed loved ones by visiting their tombs at cemeteries.