5 Day of the Dead Facts

Staff Reporter Taylor Moore

1. The biggest party destinations are cemeteries.
2. It’s a celebration of life, not death.
3. Flowers, butterflies & skulls are the primary symbols. Hence, Sugar Skulls.
4. The festival has been celebrated for over 3,000 years.
5. Sugar skulls represented a departed soul, had the name written on the forehead and was placed on their gravestone.