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Last weekend brought with it range of celebrations including Halloween, All Saints' Day, Day of the Dead and more. Here's a selection of photos from celebrations around the world.

A woman in the role of a spirit known as a "Gede" looks on while holding a human bone in her hands during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. Day of the Dead traditions coincide with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on Nov. 1 and 2.
A woman in the role of a spirit known as a "Gede" looks on while holding a human bone in her hands during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 

A woman in the role of a spirit known as a "Gede" looks on while holding a human bone in her hands during Day of the Dead celebrations at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, 1 November 2015. Day of the Dead traditions coincide with All Saints Day and All Souls Day on 1 and 2 November.

Mary Triana, 16, wears an intricate Day Of The Dead face at the first annual "Viva la Vida" festival at the Santa Ana, Calif., train station Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.The first annual "Viva la Vida" festival was a celebration of Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos) at the Santa Ana Train Station. The event featured individual alters to ancestors, food and entertainment.
Mary Triana, 16, wears an intricate Day Of The Dead face at the first annual "Viva la Vida" festival at the Santa Ana, Calif., train station Sunday, 1 November. 

The first annual "Viva la Vida" festival was a celebration of Day of the Dead at the Santa Ana Train Station in California. The event featured individual alters to ancestors, food and entertainment.

A man performs an indigenous dance called Huaylia at the Virgen de Lourdes cemetery where relatives converge to honor friends and family who have passed, marking the Day of the Dead holiday, in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. The souls of departed loved ones are being honored around Latin America as celebrants blend pre-Columbian rituals with the Roman Catholic observance of all Saint's Day on Nov. 1 and All Soul's Day on Nov. 2 to mark the Day of the Dead.
A man performs an indigenous dance called Huaylia at the Virgen de Lourdes cemetery where relatives converge to honor friends and family who have passed, marking the Day of the Dead holiday, in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.  

The souls of departed loved ones are being honored around Latin America as celebrants blend pre-Columbian rituals with the Roman Catholic observance of all Saint's Day on 1 November and All Soul's Day on 2 November  to mark the Day of the Dead.

Tia, 12, and Roxy, 6, from Huddersfield run on the beach during the Whitby Goth Weekend in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Tia, 12, and Roxy, 6, from Huddersfield run on the beach during the Whitby Goth Weekend in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

Whitby Goth Weekend was held in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The twice-yearly event brings in people from all over for a weekend of music and celebration of goth culture.

People pay tribute as a thousand candles burn beside a thousand paper cranes placed by activists of a foundation helping incurable children and their parents in the children's plot of the public cemetery, in front of the marble Monument of the Eternal Child to mark All Saints' Day in Pecs, 196 kms south of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.
People pay tribute as a thousand candles burn beside a thousand paper cranes placed by activists of a foundation helping incurable children and their parents in the children's plot of the public cemetery, in front of the marble Monument of the Eternal Child to mark All Saints' Day in Pecs, 196 kms south of Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.

All Saint's Day was marked in Pecs, Hungary with tributes of a thousand candles and paper craned at a public cemetery.

A Filipino girl holding a flower walks on top of tombs that are placed on top of each other inside Manila's North cemetery, Philippines on Sunday Nov. 1, 2015. Filipinos flocked to cemeteries and memorial parks to remember their dead as they observe All Saints Day in this predominantly Roman Catholic country.
A Filipino girl holding a flower walks on top of tombs that are placed on top of each other inside Manila's North cemetery, Philippines on 1 November.  

Filipinos flocked to cemeteries and memorial parks to remember their dead as they observe All Saints Day in the predominantly Roman Catholic country of the Philippines.

A girl in costume is held up during a Catrina Fest to commemorate Day of the Dead, a holiday that honors the deceased, in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.
A girl in costume is held up during a Catrina Fest to commemorate Day of the Dead, a holiday that honors the deceased, in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.

A girl in costume is held up during a Catrina Fest to commemorate Day of the Dead, a holiday that honors the deceased, in Mexico City, 1 November. The figure of a skeleton wearing an elegant broad-brimmed hat was first done as a satirical engraving by artist Jose Guadalupe Posada sometime between 1910 and his death in 1913.

Indian Christians pay tribute at the graves of their dear ones on All Souls Day.
Indian Christians pay tribute at the graves of their dear ones on All Souls Day.

Indian Christians pay tribute at the graves of their dear ones on All Souls Day in Kolkata, India, Monday, 2 November. The day honors the dead as friends and families gather in cemeteries to decorate graves of loved ones with candles and flowers and offer prayers.

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