If you’re hosting a Halloween party and are planning to bob for apples, make sure you wash the apples thoroughly. The Food ...

We delve into the Summer solstice and what it means from a pagan perspective, and how nature at the heart of the celebration.

Samhain, meanwhile, honors death, the underworld (or "other side"), the end of summer and the beginnings of the winter and harvest seasons.

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 ...

Samhain and Beltane are part of the Wheel of the Year, an annual cycle of eight seasonal festivals observed in Paganism (a "polytheistic or pantheistic nature-worshipping religion", says the Pagan ...

Samhain was the pivotal point of the Celtic Pagan new year, a time of rebirth – and death. "Pagans had three harvests: Lammas, harvest of the corn, on 1 August; the one of fruit and vegetables ...

(Mass Appeal) – Samhain is a season or month beginning around Halloween. The name and history originate with the Celts of Ireland and the first recorded evidence of celebrating Samhain is 3,0… ...

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.

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic ...

On Bodkin, the Samhain festival appears to be a modernized version of the ancient traditions like bonfires and masquerades, but as in Midsommar and The Wicker Man, there’s a sinister edge to ...

Each year, Yates Garcia celebrates the pagan holiday of Samhain by hosting full moon rituals and building an altar. Photo by Tatiana Wills. For most Angelenos, Halloween is a time to wear costumes, ...