About Author: Sean Patrick Traver

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Sean writes about witches and weirdness in the City of Angels. Check out his world at SeanPatrickTraver.com

Posts by Sean Patrick Traver

  • It’s my favorite time of year again, when the skies are looking a little bit grayer and the air feels a little bit colder than it did just a few...

    Spirits of the Season: The Day of the Dead in L.A.

    It’s my favorite time of year again, when the skies are looking a little bit grayer and the air feels a little bit colder than it did just a few...

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  • One of the first ghosts to arrive for el Dia de los Muertos each year is the familiar image of La Calavera Catrina.  Shown as a grinning female skeleton wearing...

    Spirits of the Season: La Catrina

    One of the first ghosts to arrive for el Dia de los Muertos each year is the familiar image of La Calavera Catrina.  Shown as a grinning female skeleton wearing...

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  • Imagine you’re an Aztec in pre-conquest Mexico, and you’ve just died. You wouldn’t have called yourself Aztec, first off— historians applied that name later on.  You would’ve been Nahua or...

    Spirits of the Season: Mictlantecuhtli

    Imagine you’re an Aztec in pre-conquest Mexico, and you’ve just died. You wouldn’t have called yourself Aztec, first off— historians applied that name later on.  You would’ve been Nahua or...

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  • For generations, children throughout Mexico and the American southwest have whispered the same woman’s tragic story into one another’s ears, provoking nervous giggles while planting the seeds of nightmares.  She’s...

    Spirits of the Season: La Llorona

    For generations, children throughout Mexico and the American southwest have whispered the same woman’s tragic story into one another’s ears, provoking nervous giggles while planting the seeds of nightmares.  She’s...

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  • Check out these cool ceramic calaveras!  They’re each handcrafted by the Lugo family in Santa Monica and available for purchase at Metropolis Bikes of North Hollywood.  They can be mounted...

    Day of the Dead Décor at Metropolis Bikes

    Check out these cool ceramic calaveras!  They’re each handcrafted by the Lugo family in Santa Monica and available for purchase at Metropolis Bikes of North Hollywood.  They can be mounted...

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  • “To get the flavour of magic, [you] could do a lot worse than read a couple of the books by Lon Milo DuQuette.”  –Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, From Hell,...

    Creepy Questions for Occult Author Lon Milo DuQuette

    “To get the flavour of magic, [you] could do a lot worse than read a couple of the books by Lon Milo DuQuette.”  –Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, From Hell,...

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  • Death isn’t separate from life in the works of sculptor John De Jesus— it’s simply the flip side of the same celebration.  His subjects may be deceased, but you won’t...

    The Art of John De Jesus

    Death isn’t separate from life in the works of sculptor John De Jesus— it’s simply the flip side of the same celebration.  His subjects may be deceased, but you won’t...

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  • On cozy Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank, just down the block from Porto’s Bakery, lies an even more delicious treat for the morbidly-minded: Dark Delicacies, the nation’s one and only horror-themed...

    Dark Delicacies

    On cozy Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank, just down the block from Porto’s Bakery, lies an even more delicious treat for the morbidly-minded: Dark Delicacies, the nation’s one and only horror-themed...

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