October has arrived—and with it, the unmistakable theatre of the season: pumpkin displays outside supermarkets, cobwebbed front porches, office corridors filled with half-hearted witches and superheroes. Halloween has long since outgrown its Celtic roots and become an Americanised export, carried across continents by media, migration, and mass marketing. But as it settles into new corners of the world, it is quietly being rewritten, reshaped by diasporas, expat communities, and neighbourhoods where many cultures meet. In cities from Dubai to London, Toronto to Singapore, you’ll now find Halloweens that look a little different: Bollywood beats mixed with eerie playlists, marigolds beside pumpkins, families blending Día de los Muertos altars with Diwali lamps. What was once a Western nig

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