Keep Death in Halloween: A Conversation with Elizabeth Harper

The Image Podcast - A podcast by The Image Podcast

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.

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