Before trick or treating and pumpkins, Nos Calan Gaeaf was a time to embrace the spirit world.

It's the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. The word ...

Costumes, candy, commercialization … three words that can succinctly describe the modern image of Halloween. Besides slasher films and an eerie chill in the air, Halloween is viewed as just another ...

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.

Pumpkins, sweets and lanterns are familiar features of a well-loved tradition known around the world: Halloween. But did you ...

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 ...

There is much that is mystifying, interesting and beautiful in the beliefs on which the festival of All Hallows was originally based.” That was the opening line of the Washington D.C. Sunday Star ...

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

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