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Sagada honours the dead with fire on All Saints’ Day
In Sagada, a mountain town in the Philippines, residents mark All Saints’ Day with Panag-aapoy, a ceremony whose name means “to light a fire.” The tradition has honoured the dead for 122 years. It remains a longstanding local observance.
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