Eric Dedace remembers being awoken by his parents in the dead of night when he was a child. They told him to look out the window where a group of people pretending to be ghosts waved and sang to him. “So [our family did] some prayers, Our Fathers, Hail Marys and one Glory Be,” says Dedace, who grew up on the Philippine island region of Quezon, where he still lives. “And then my parents gave them a few centavo coins.” The specters were villagers dressed in somber clothes. Afterward, Dedace’s…
