A Parallel world with the same basic technology level as our world. But the culture and flora and fauna there are sometimes strikingly different. Infictive contributor Mystery X has been recording some traditional and contemporary music about the world's customs and especially, its holidays.
⤓ During the rainy season there are large amounts of these brightly colored frogs. They range radically in color and hue. They can be caught and frozen so as to be preserved for birthdays and anniversary occasions during the winter months. This tradition has been around since the advent of the ice house. The smells of the herbal chemical bathing and freezing process fill a home with that familiar scent for hours and is a rich part of people's family memories. Nowadays the process that once took many hours can be done in forty five minutes using modern chemicals and electrical devices.
A sinister twist on the game we know. Held once every three years. This event has all the children on the town or a few hundred per city section together with parents and town officials and onlookers. Some of the apples have objects placed in them: Money, hallucinogenic drugs. One of the apples will have a razor blade in it, or fragmented bits of blades. And there's one poison apple guaranteed to kill whoever gets it. The kids must eat the apples in a dimly lit room so they can't tell if they're chocolate coated apple is tampered with or not. The casualties are sacrifices for "The good of society". The three drugged apples are to generate shamans and visionary artists. Nearly all the apples are harmless and very delicious. Pre-peeled and then shelled in a crispy chocolate skin, painted red with sugar icing.
A ghastly event that happens on the first full moon of October but only once a decade. All the babies that where born in the course of the year are sacrificed to Bug-ShaGug. A dark and sinister Insect God.