Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

Long before pumpkins and gourds ruled over late October, root vegetables reigned supreme. But it wasn’t just in the name of spooky fun. In the 19th and early 20th century, people in Ireland and other ...

Many Wiccans, Druids and other pagans across the globe will be marking the beginning of their spiritual new year with the two-day festival of Samhain. The most widely observed pagan festival begins ...

1. Samhain is a harvest festival. Samhain marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, also known as the “darker half” of the year. That means when the pumpkins are being picked, ...

Advanced publicity beckoning witches, wise folk and the curious from New England and beyond attracted crowds on Oct. 23 to DoubleTree by Hilton in Nashua to “Celebrate Samhain,” a 16th annual regional ...

Halloween, before horror movies and trick-or-treating became the norm, came from a Celtic celebration known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in), also known as the "feast of the dead." The holiday served as ...

More Americans are Wiccan, and will celebrate Samhain not Halloween Saturday. Oct. 30, 2009— -- Patti Wigington is a soccer mom. She is the vice president of her local PTA. And she's a witch.

Learn about the origins of Halloween, when Samhain was celebrated by the Celts. Reuters Hundreds of years ago, Halloween was a day that was observed for reasons other than merely collecting candy from ...

Next Wednesday when all of the trick-or-treating is over with, and the eating has begun, why not tune into the 'Samhain Live' festival on TG4, which will be broadcast on TV for the first time.

If you live in Lucan, Co Dublin, and see someone hanging around on Sunday evening killing time while dressed as a giant rabbit, here’s why: for those planning to go to Samhain music festival this ...