Halloween wasn't celebrated in Argentina on most of Latin America until recently. The typical Catholic festivity was All Saints' Day on November 1st, and until the late 1970s it was a National Holiday in Argentina. Mexico is known for celebrating the Dia de los Muertos to remember their dead relatives (Nov. 1 and 2).
Halloween is a recent cultural addition introduced by the TV, and American movies. We learned about trick or treat by watching them.
Patagonian natives had different beliefs about the dead, the Aonikenk believed that the dead person rode on his horses into the afterlife (see p. 308 - Source), so the relatives killed the horses of the deceased and placed them by the tomb. Among the Mapuche, there were propiciatory rituals that helped the spirit or püllü of the dead move on, from the material plane into the plane of their ancestors (Source).
There was also the belief among the Tehuelches that the dead went to heaven and lived in an enclosure of stars (the enclosure -like a pen- of the dead), where they enjoyed a good afterlife.
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Patagonian Monsters - Cryptozoology, Myths & legends in Patagonia Copyright 2009-2025 by Austin Whittall ©
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