Nasir shared his wedding feast with the grieving family.

NEWYORKER: After America

Women will spend all day cooking the favourite food of the dead relative for the customary feast, in which friends and family gather to toast the ghostly visitors.

BBC: Mexico's Day of the Dead

"New and creative ways to investigate and share history, culture and tradition have combined within a family friendly and inclusive focus to evolve this traditional feast day into a civic celebration belonging to all the people of Omagh and further a field, " it added.

BBC: St Patrick's Day parade in Omagh

Around this time, my family is busy preparing for Christmas traditions: the gift giving, the midnight candlelight service, the feast on Christmas Day.

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