Halloween

Hola
Will be down in late October for the winter. Every year we bring down 'treats' for Halloween. Is this a Mexican tradition or is this just a USA/Canada/where ever tradition? In Zihua the 'treaters' are around for three days, the same as the Day of the Dead observances. Are we doing wrong by perpetuating a tradition that is not ( or is it ) Mexican? Help please.

Halloween probably got transplanted to México via whatever white folks arrived and observed it. Whether there is any connection to any indigenous observances, I know not. This link from the Library of Congress Halloween will give you some good background. The celebration is basically a Christian paste-over of ancient Druid and Celtic harvest observances around the autumn cross-quarter day, basically November 1.

As such the connection to Dia de Muertos is tenuous at best, and my preference would be not to promote it.