- The festival takes place every year on August 31st in Salvador to commemorate the 1922 eruption of a volcano that forced residents to flee. During the festival, teams throw fireballs the size of palms at each other. - In Nejapa, a small town, residents maintain the tradition of throwing fireballs in memory of the volcano, despite the church saying it leads to demonic possession. - The Day of the Dead is celebrated November 1st-2nd in Mexico. Families create altars with offerings for deceased loved ones and tell stories about them. Some customs, like leaving food, flowers, and alcohol, reflect similar pre-Hispanic festivities.

2. Ball of fire

3. What is celebration?
•The festival takes place on the same day every
year - 31 August - and residents gather around
the commemoration of the 1922 eruption of a
volcano that forced all city residents to flee, in
Salvador.

4. How they celebrate?
•-In Salvador there is a strange and unusual
festival that involves throwing fireballs size of
the palm of kerosene on the opposing team
(team good against evil computer).

5. History
• At Festival has given a religious bias because the church says Jerome
led to a demon by fireballs, citizens of the small town of Nejapa will
maintain its usual ball not so traditional fire-throwing in memory of
the volcano that once changed his world.

6. Day of the Dead

7. What is celebration?
Celebrating The Day of the Dead has a long history in Mexican
Tradition. The Day of the dead is celebrated on November 2nd.
Sometime one hears reference to “the days of the Dead” which refers
to the Days of October 31 – November 2. October 31 is Halloween or
All Hallows eve. November 1 is “el Dia de los innnocentes” or the day of
the children and All Saints Day. November second is All Souls Day or
the Day of the Dead.

8. How they celebrate?
Flowers, food, and alcoholic beverages may be left there for deceased
loved ones. Some even arrange for musical groups to play the songs
their loved one enjoyed listening to. Many Catholics also build an altar
in their home and may place a photograph of the dead loved one on it.
Here are the most common and important Day of the Dead traditions:
• Creating an altar with offerings (known as ofrenda)
• Visiting, cleaning, and decorating gravesites
• Telling stories about the deceased
• Making food for the deceased, to be placed on altars
• Making or buying sugar skulls and pan de muerto

9. History
• The Enciclopedia de México notes that certain practices in connection
with the celebration of the dead seem “to preserve elements of the
Indian ceremonies of the months ochpaniztli and teotleco, during
which cempasúchil flowers and corn tamales were offered to the
manes [souls of the dead] at a time of the year in which the harvest
had just been gathered—at the end of October and the beginning of
November.” As the encyclopedia notes, some of the customs reflect
similar festivities held during pre-Hispanic times, which included a
certain carnivallike spirit.