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Singapore: Hungry Ghost Festival

Written byPreetam Rai
Posted 16 August 2007 5:30 GMT

Culture Shiok writes about the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival “14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is when the gates of hell open and the dead will again walk among the living.” The blogger describe how the relatives of the departed people try to appease the souls.

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