From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations.

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern ...

Halloween marks the halfway point between the Autumnal Equinox and the Winter Solstice, making it a cross-quarter day.

For Rev. Laura González, the business of being a witch is a little subversive — reflecting a female empowerment that she ...

In the late 1800s, there was a move to mold holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, ...

November’s new moon in spooky Scorpio arrives with uncannily divine timing, as Nov. 1 is a date associated with honoring the ...

Celebrated usually from 31 October to 1 November, the religious rituals of Samhain (pronounced "sow-win", meaning summer's end), focused on fire, as winter approached. Anthropologist and pagan Lyn ...

These stories about the pagan past told of Irish kings holding annual weeklong feasts, markets and games at Samhain. The day ended early in northwestern Europe, before 5 p.m., and winter nights ...