“During contemporary Day of the Dead festivities, people commonly wear skull masks and eat sugar candy molded into the shape ...

Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead ... members clean and decorate the gravesites of loved ones with skulls, garlands, candles and marigold flowers. The spirits would travel from the ...

Some honour their loved ones with candles ... their own homes. Skull imagery, costumes and body paint may also play a part - and these have become the iconic Day of the Dead images that have ...