Ireland has Halloween on 31st Oct.
Taiwan have a holiday to fete the departed spirits of the underworld : Ghost Festival, a popular occasion celebrated on the 15th July in lunar calendar.
Historically, families offer sacrifices of the newly harvested grain to departed ancestors on this day.
In Taiwan, Ghost Festival is passed by slaughtering a pig and sheep, competition on their sizes in some towns, together with a prodigious table of wine, meat and fruits on offer to ancestors and
ghosts from the underworld.
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