Photo credit: Maria Mafla for Grenada National Trust, November 2022
All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day are annual Christian festivals held on the 1st and 2nd of November each year to honour the Christian Saints and celebrate the souls of the departed, respectively. On All Saints’ Night friends and relatives of the dead gather at cemeteries to light candles on their graves as a remembrance. On All Souls’ Night candles are lit on the steps of homes in the hope that the deceased will “find their way home.” These rituals are also associated with asham which is parched, ground and sweetened corn.
Photo credit: Maria Mafla for Grenada National Trust, November 2022
Even though this event has not been documented in this first pilot inventorying fieldwork due to limited resources and timeframe, this element is alive as local people are still practicing it each November to honour their loved ones who have passed away.
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