From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Five years after the Satanic Temple of the United States made headlines — and unleashed a wave of panic — when it was ...

From sunset on October 31 to sunset on November 1 is the traditional celebration of Samhain, (pronounced sow-in). It is a ...

The first-ever Wassail of the Church of the Eternal Circle’s Mari Lwyd will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, bringing a ...

Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations.

Supermarket shelves are buckling under the weight of pumpkins. Witch hats, cat ears and devil horns have been fetched down ...

But such misrepresentation of the North is unfair. Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan ...

Scholars believe that the spectral aspects of Halloween emerged primarily from Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival that ...

As the season of witches, vampires and ghosts descends upon us - it is time to travel back and examine the true origins of ...

In a speech on Thursday, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church warned against what he called attempts to “revive paganism,” ...

which was the second most important fire festival in the Pagan Celtic world, the first being Beltane, on 1 May." Samhain and Beltane are part of the Wheel of the Year, an annual cycle of eight ...