The day of the Dead is original from Mexico but it is spread  in other cultures as well. It starts from 31 October until 2 November having connection with  Halloween. The  friends are gathering to pray for the members of the family that are dead and make collections of sweets and foods  and to leave gifts.

Representations of Catrina, one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico

The celebration is different based on the place where it happens. In the United States, the celebration isn’t different from the one in Mexico but it has something more:   some people wearing masks carry signs honouring the dead and an urn in which people can place slips of paper with prayers on them to be burned. In Europe people take off a work day so that they can go at the cemetery to leave candles and flowers for the dead and give presents to the kids.

Here it is a belief that someone wrote: it presents the three-day celebration: On October 31, All Hallows Eve, the children make a children’s altar to invite the angelitos (spirits of dead children) to come back for a visit; November 1 is All Saints Day, and the adult spirits will come to visit; November 2 is All Souls Day, when families go to the cemetery to decorate the graves and tombs of their relatives.

The three-day fiesta filled with marigolds, the flowers of the dead; muertos (the bread of the dead); sugar skulls; cardboard skeletons; tissue paper decorations; fruit and nuts; incense, and other traditional foods and decorations.

Information taken from Wikipedia

To be continued…