Cleaning cleaning, alter set, All Saints’ Day here in northern Italy, tomorrow to the cemetery, been to May favourite saint’s church ( Santa rita di Cascia ) house nearly ready, then sitting down, shall sit chicken broth and pour them a cup, biscotti, figs, honey, stones, white candles, plants, gold Jewelry …this video popped up while I was doing this preparation which was so nice to keep me company as I sweep 🧹. Ti auguro una buona giornata della festa di Ognissanti
love that you made this video. i like making italian cookies and espresso for my ancestors .. and spending time in a peaceful cemetery! unfortunately i can’t visit my family’s graves because of distance but i find it comforting to be in some of the beautiful cemeteries that i live by full of spanish moss covered oak trees. 🖤☕️
Usually I don't link my mom anything but you are the only, I think you are the best sibce whatever I can think you are polite. I love when people are polite, you can have to do with.
Hi:) Here in Southern Italy and especially Sicily the day of the Dead used to be our original "Christmas". The celebration included gift exchange (while christmas actually didn't for us) in which gifts were meant to be left by our ancestors, and you had to seek them throughout the house. Any gift was associated with one dead relative and it was a way to know them for the kids who didn't when they were alive. Very beautiful. And in Naples there is still a residual worship of the "Anima sola" (exactly the same as in Spanish) and skulls. It is not only mexican and mediterranean culture (there is no unitary italian culture) can resembles Latin American and African cultures, they are deeply interconnected and it's far from appropriation. The northern and western European culture is completely different and has little to do with all of them.
All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are major holidays in the Philippines! A lot of our practices are also paralleled to the folk practices for Dia de los Muertos. We offer food, drinks, and candles to our loved ones. Around this time, cemeteries are really packed, and some major cemeteries can have almost 1 million visitors in a single day. These practices also clash in a religious sense -- Catholic churches post and send out PSAs and announcements that people shouldn't offer food and drinks to departed loved ones. However I think due to the strong syncretism of Catholicism with our pre-colonial practices, alongside other practices, we tend to ignore it and just go for what we usually have been doing for a long time. Doctrine tends to get shoved away a lot since people aren't really into that despite being religious lol. A particular practice from the region of Ilocos in the Philippines is the offering of food known as 'atang'. This tends to be more common for the recently deceased, but it's prevalently done during All Souls' Day. This also extends to 'tumba-tumba' in Paoay (from the same region), in which folks would basically build ancestor altars, with pictures of the deceased alongside Catholic images. Food such as rice cakes and eggs, fruits, and flowers, are all offered on a table. They would recite prayers and hymns from early evening to midnight. It's quite close to the set-ups of ancestor altars that we see for Dia de los Muertos in Mexico. Nowadays, people spend the holidays either solemnly, or as family reunions. Street vendors also cruise around cemeteries to sell food and toys. Sadly, cemeteries also get piled up with a ton of trash after these holidays due to the influx of people visiting around this time. A lot of memes tend to pop up around this time as well, especially with people joking about how they're tempted to eat food offerings and do taste tests around different graves 💀💀💀
this is so beautiful and heartwarming. I just got married a few days ago and missed the presence of my nonna and nonno, so this is a special time for me to remember them/honor them❤❤❤
Also, Frankie, thank you SO much for discussing these different ideas for venerating our ancestors. It means so much to hear these as well as is really helpful because this year I have several goals I want to accomplish and ancestral work is part of that. 😊
can’t wait for your next book! i absolutely loved Spells for Change, i can confidently say it changed my practice to a more grounded one, it completely opened my eyes to so many things, you’re very creative and very talented with your words, Frankie. may you be blessed 🤍
That's fantastic. I have been trying to up the ante with my own ancestor (those that went before) altar year after year. I feel that they're pleased or at the very least, I hope they are. This has been mainly a Samhain/Halloween activity, but I am starting to get the feeling that they would really enjoy having a more permanent location.❤
Not only it is still celebrated in Italy, it's national holiday! We don't work on that day. Personally I don't do anything, but the atmosphere is always palpable. Also giorno dei morti and Ognissanti (All Saints) are both national holidays and two different things: the first one is for the ppl who passed away, and the second one is a day to celebrate, well, all Saints. If you don't have a specifc name day, then yours is November 2nd!
My grandma died last week and the funeral is tomorrow. I came here to... Actually I don't really know why I clicked on this video, but it helped to ease the anxiety about tomorrow.
i'm just starting to pursue a Celtic faith and i've been honouring my ancestors by being mindful, switching off my phone, appreciating the moment and listening to the natural sounds around me. based on this video, it might be nice to light a white candle while i'm cooking or cleaning just to create a connection with my ancestors in my day to day.
Hello! Ive been binging your videos like crazy, and your perspectives very much helped me in reconnecting with my own practice (not Italian American folk heheh) , thank you for your work :) have a good all spirits day(s)!!!!
Idk who told u u couldnt celebrate el dia de los muertos if you're not mexican everyone can celebrate it and we encourage it but obviously learn abt the tradition
It has ties to indigenous communities is one of the primary reasons, many people from what I saw only do it for pets and people forget that they have their own historical ancestral practices based on their ancestry. Even as they live in their own country. Not all indigenous people celebrate it the same way or on the same day even from what I’ve heard. People who celebrate it just want to do it cause it’s pretty and don’t want to deal with researching their ancestry. It’s being lazy practically and picking dia de los muertos because they saw Coco. My own family had to restrict/tone down their celebrations for Dia de los Muertos when they raised money for the chance to move into predominantly white communities in the U.S back in the day. Tone down to avoid violence from white people so to me this is funny NOW that lazy European Americans. Yt European people even want to do it instead of doing what Frankie does. There are ancestral traditions around the world including from their heritage. So it’s weird for those of us who faced oppression for celebrating it.
Also there are some Mexicans who just want to be kiss asses to anyone who appears to have European ancestry. It could means upward social mobility, it’s a leftover mindset from being colonized.
Congratulations!!!! 🥳🥰 Making the round on every platform to say I'm too excited about the new book ☺️ Buona commemorazione dei defunti🕯️ PS: Please let us know, if by any chance are you planning to sell some signed copies on your website 👀
Congratulations on book number 2! Would you say this book is mostly Italian/Italian-American oriented, or can people from different communities and diasporas use the tools therein?
do you think it’s possible to have a productive and effective practice in an unorganized living situation? i live with others and can’t really control certain areas of the house, but i hear a lot of practitioner’s say it’s not possible or unlikely to manifest spell and ritual results in a cluttered house
@@lasantuzza777 I have a pair of LED dice triggered by hitting them on a surface, I remember sitting on my bed when one of them started beeping and glowing on my desk. I proceeded to open my Phone's TH-cam App wich did a huge jump scroll down on my feed. Then I went to Synch it to the living room TV and as I reached for the remote, the TV turned on by itself.
I’m trying to reconnect with my ancestors and Mexican traditions but barely now yet I hope in the future my alter will be able to shine through and help them whatever they are in the afterlife
Might be a weird question, but how do your altar and your cat mix? I have a new-ish cat and she chews on everything that's just lying around unsupervised. I can't mount a shelf to my wall sadly, my walls suck big time and the last attempt just broke off and left a multiple inch deep hole. So far she threw stuff off, chewed the plants, and in genreal just rolled around in everything. I'm also in the broom closet with no way out for a long while
Most of my altars are out of her reach! There's one (my working altar) that she does like to sit on, but she doesn't usually chew things. You could try a cabinet or a shelving unit on the altar to store things!
oh i got you. i have several alters, all of which are inside cabinets. most of them are inside a very very small china cabinet with a glass front so I'm able to see my alters while keeping them safe from my animals (and myself if we're being honest). i know spending money is not always an option but if you can spare a dime, i swear this works wonderfully.
Cleaning cleaning, alter set, All Saints’ Day here in northern Italy, tomorrow to the cemetery, been to May favourite saint’s church ( Santa rita di Cascia ) house nearly ready, then sitting down, shall sit chicken broth and pour them a cup, biscotti, figs, honey, stones, white candles, plants, gold Jewelry …this video popped up while I was doing this preparation which was so nice to keep me company as I sweep 🧹. Ti auguro una buona giornata della festa di Ognissanti
I hope one day after I'm gone someone etas chocolate and plays video games in my honor.
love that you made this video. i like making italian cookies and espresso for my ancestors .. and spending time in a peaceful cemetery! unfortunately i can’t visit my family’s graves because of distance but i find it comforting to be in some of the beautiful cemeteries that i live by full of spanish moss covered oak trees. 🖤☕️
Usually I don't link my mom anything but you are the only, I think you are the best sibce whatever I can think you are polite. I love when people are polite, you can have to do with.
Hi:) Here in Southern Italy and especially Sicily the day of the Dead used to be our original "Christmas". The celebration included gift exchange (while christmas actually didn't for us) in which gifts were meant to be left by our ancestors, and you had to seek them throughout the house. Any gift was associated with one dead relative and it was a way to know them for the kids who didn't when they were alive. Very beautiful. And in Naples there is still a residual worship of the "Anima sola" (exactly the same as in Spanish) and skulls. It is not only mexican and mediterranean culture (there is no unitary italian culture) can resembles Latin American and African cultures, they are deeply interconnected and it's far from appropriation. The northern and western European culture is completely different and has little to do with all of them.
Born, raised and living in Naples and I didn't know abt the gift thing!
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Yeeeeeees i love ancestor videos!
All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are major holidays in the Philippines! A lot of our practices are also paralleled to the folk practices for Dia de los Muertos. We offer food, drinks, and candles to our loved ones. Around this time, cemeteries are really packed, and some major cemeteries can have almost 1 million visitors in a single day.
These practices also clash in a religious sense -- Catholic churches post and send out PSAs and announcements that people shouldn't offer food and drinks to departed loved ones. However I think due to the strong syncretism of Catholicism with our pre-colonial practices, alongside other practices, we tend to ignore it and just go for what we usually have been doing for a long time. Doctrine tends to get shoved away a lot since people aren't really into that despite being religious lol.
A particular practice from the region of Ilocos in the Philippines is the offering of food known as 'atang'. This tends to be more common for the recently deceased, but it's prevalently done during All Souls' Day. This also extends to 'tumba-tumba' in Paoay (from the same region), in which folks would basically build ancestor altars, with pictures of the deceased alongside Catholic images. Food such as rice cakes and eggs, fruits, and flowers, are all offered on a table. They would recite prayers and hymns from early evening to midnight. It's quite close to the set-ups of ancestor altars that we see for Dia de los Muertos in Mexico.
Nowadays, people spend the holidays either solemnly, or as family reunions. Street vendors also cruise around cemeteries to sell food and toys. Sadly, cemeteries also get piled up with a ton of trash after these holidays due to the influx of people visiting around this time.
A lot of memes tend to pop up around this time as well, especially with people joking about how they're tempted to eat food offerings and do taste tests around different graves 💀💀💀
this is so beautiful and heartwarming. I just got married a few days ago and missed the presence of my nonna and nonno, so this is a special time for me to remember them/honor them❤❤❤
Also, Frankie, thank you SO much for discussing these different ideas for venerating our ancestors. It means so much to hear these as well as is really helpful because this year I have several goals I want to accomplish and ancestral work is part of that. 😊
can’t wait for your next book! i absolutely loved Spells for Change, i can confidently say it changed my practice to a more grounded one, it completely opened my eyes to so many things, you’re very creative and very talented with your words, Frankie. may you be blessed 🤍
That's fantastic. I have been trying to up the ante with my own ancestor (those that went before) altar year after year. I feel that they're pleased or at the very least, I hope they are. This has been mainly a Samhain/Halloween activity, but I am starting to get the feeling that they would really enjoy having a more permanent location.❤
Oh Frankie I am so stoked to grab a copy of the new one when it finally comes out !
Love this!💕💕💕
Awesome!!! New Book! Can't wait!!! 🙂
Not only it is still celebrated in Italy, it's national holiday! We don't work on that day. Personally I don't do anything, but the atmosphere is always palpable. Also giorno dei morti and Ognissanti (All Saints) are both national holidays and two different things: the first one is for the ppl who passed away, and the second one is a day to celebrate, well, all Saints. If you don't have a specifc name day, then yours is November 2nd!
I've got that book spells for Change and it's a great book❤ I look forward to reading your new book
My grandma died last week and the funeral is tomorrow. I came here to... Actually I don't really know why I clicked on this video, but it helped to ease the anxiety about tomorrow.
i'm just starting to pursue a Celtic faith and i've been honouring my ancestors by being mindful, switching off my phone, appreciating the moment and listening to the natural sounds around me.
based on this video, it might be nice to light a white candle while i'm cooking or cleaning just to create a connection with my ancestors in my day to day.
I’ve never heard of having to be Mexican to celebrate dia de los muertos… please someone correct me if I’m wrong
Hello! Ive been binging your videos like crazy, and your perspectives very much helped me in reconnecting with my own practice (not Italian American folk heheh) , thank you for your work :) have a good all spirits day(s)!!!!
Idk who told u u couldnt celebrate el dia de los muertos if you're not mexican everyone can celebrate it and we encourage it but obviously learn abt the tradition
they’re overly woke tbh dia de los muertes is open according to mexicans lol
I celebrate it and I'm not Mexican, 😂
It has ties to indigenous communities is one of the primary reasons, many people from what I saw only do it for pets and people forget that they have their own historical ancestral practices based on their ancestry. Even as they live in their own country. Not all indigenous people celebrate it the same way or on the same day even from what I’ve heard. People who celebrate it just want to do it cause it’s pretty and don’t want to deal with researching their ancestry. It’s being lazy practically and picking dia de los muertos because they saw Coco. My own family had to restrict/tone down their celebrations for Dia de los Muertos when they raised money for the chance to move into predominantly white communities in the U.S back in the day. Tone down to avoid violence from white people so to me this is funny NOW that lazy European Americans. Yt European people even want to do it instead of doing what Frankie does. There are ancestral traditions around the world including from their heritage. So it’s weird for those of us who faced oppression for celebrating it.
Also there are some Mexicans who just want to be kiss asses to anyone who appears to have European ancestry. It could means upward social mobility, it’s a leftover mindset from being colonized.
@@Wraithcat001 😂😂😂 you're oppressed why not live in Mexico and make it better? You lazy or something 🤡😂😂😂
Congratulations!!!! 🥳🥰
Making the round on every platform to say I'm too excited about the new book ☺️
Buona commemorazione dei defunti🕯️
PS: Please let us know, if by any chance are you planning to sell some signed copies on your website 👀
Congratulations on book number 2! Would you say this book is mostly Italian/Italian-American oriented, or can people from different communities and diasporas use the tools therein?
do you think it’s possible to have a productive and effective practice in an unorganized living situation? i live with others and can’t really control certain areas of the house, but i hear a lot of practitioner’s say it’s not possible or unlikely to manifest spell and ritual results in a cluttered house
What do you do with the food after putting at the alter?
The veil just opened and I can already hear things moving in my house. Last time that happened some of my devices "woke up" by themselves.
lol last night my child’s toy kept going off by itself 😵💫
@@lasantuzza777 I have a pair of LED dice triggered by hitting them on a surface, I remember sitting on my bed when one of them started beeping and glowing on my desk.
I proceeded to open my Phone's TH-cam App wich did a huge jump scroll down on my feed.
Then I went to Synch it to the living room TV and as I reached for the remote, the TV turned on by itself.
@@josuemartinez7687 it appears there are several (or one persistent) spirit demanding some attention 😂
Why do witches are considered as Evil?
Yaaaaay!!!! Another Frankie book!!!!!!
I’m trying to reconnect with my ancestors and Mexican traditions but barely now yet I hope in the future my alter will be able to shine through and help them whatever they are in the afterlife
Might be a weird question, but how do your altar and your cat mix? I have a new-ish cat and she chews on everything that's just lying around unsupervised. I can't mount a shelf to my wall sadly, my walls suck big time and the last attempt just broke off and left a multiple inch deep hole. So far she threw stuff off, chewed the plants, and in genreal just rolled around in everything.
I'm also in the broom closet with no way out for a long while
Most of my altars are out of her reach! There's one (my working altar) that she does like to sit on, but she doesn't usually chew things. You could try a cabinet or a shelving unit on the altar to store things!
oh i got you. i have several alters, all of which are inside cabinets. most of them are inside a very very small china cabinet with a glass front so I'm able to see my alters while keeping them safe from my animals (and myself if we're being honest). i know spending money is not always an option but if you can spare a dime, i swear this works wonderfully.
They make bookshelves with glass doors that you can close; maybe you could get one of those and put your altar(s) in the shelves?