Children across the city enjoyed a festive week by celebrating Diwali and Halloween simultaneously. Kids dressed up in scary ...

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 (pronounced SAW-en).  But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature ...

The Gregorian mission decreed that Samhain festivities must incorporate Christian saints "to ward off the sprites and evil creatures of the night", says Baylis. All Souls Day, 1 November ...

My boots crunched on fallen conkers from horse chestnut trees. Seeing nature visually mark the change between summer and ...

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It ...

One Delaware law you won't have to worry about this year is in Rehoboth where it's illegal to trick-or-treat on a Sunday.

There was magic in the Derry air this week as tens of thousands swooped in from every corner of the north west and far beyond ...

Tir Na Nog in Irish mythology translates roughly to "the land of youth." It's a plane of existence without joint pain, ...

If the US can have Christmukkah-or even Chrismahanukwanzakah, to include the African-American Kwanzaa-then why not ...

According to the History channel, Halloween started around 2,000 years ago with a Celtic festival named ‘Samhain’ in an area ...

Halloween has become widely popular in the United States, especially in recent years. The National Retail Federation data ...