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.  

 

Disclaimer:
“Grenada National Trust under the Proud of my Heritage project funded by UNESCO, does not assume any responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions and information in the content of this site. The information contained in this site is provided on an “as is” basis with no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, usefulness or timeliness as the content and audio-visual materials were compiled from interviews done to specifics ICH practitioners and bearers around Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique in 2022 who gave us their written consent during the pilot Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) inventorying exercises”
If you are an educational institution, organization and/or researcher who would like to receive more information about any specific ICH element’ material, please feel free to contact us at admin@grenadanationaltrust.org
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

 1   2   3   4   5