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- Sep 2022
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Other acts featured Houdini being hung from a skyscraper in a straitjacket, or bound and buried—without a coffin—under six feet of dirt.
So Samhain or more commonly Halloween is my favorite holiday. It actually is officially November first, but traditionally is celebrated on October 31. It is a very important holiday to me but also when some very important things happened to me.
On a more morbid note, I found it very interesting that world renown, Houdini, who had escaped death countless times, even escaping from a literal grave, succumbed to death on this day. Its significance is that this is considered a time when the year itself is dying as daylight rapidly becomes less and less as winter approaches.
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