Keep Death in Halloween: A Conversation with Elizabeth Harper
The Image Podcast - A podcast by The Image Podcast
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Halloween kicks off the Octave of the Dead, eight days when Christians traditionally prayed for the souls of the departed. For this episode of the podcast I talked to Elizabeth Harper, whose essay, “The Cult of the Beheaded,” in Image 102, explores one culture’s particular history of praying with the remains of the dead.