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 ...

Samhain is a season or month beginning around Halloween. The name and history originate with the Celts of Ireland and the ...

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

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

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

Have you ever wondered where Halloween originated? Learn about the early pagan traditions that shape modern-day Halloween ...

Halloween's astrology is full of magic and mystery, as it includes a mystical grand trine and comes on the eve of a new moon.

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 ...