The Celtic calendar is much more than simple timekeeping. It's a living, breathing system rooted deep in the land, the cycles ...

"These traditions slow me down, force me to recognize the passage of time and the way in which the changing of seasons has affected my world," writes Morgan Lockhart ...

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of the summer harvest and the ...

On the night of October 31, streets around the world glow with carved pumpkins, costumed figures, and the echoes of ancient tales about spirits and the afterlife. This is Halloween! A holiday with ...

From porch skeletons to pumpkin patches and piles of hard-earned candy, Halloween is one of America’s most widely celebrated holidays. Once dismissed by some religious groups as too pagan, it’s now ...

The modern traditions of Halloween include costumes, kids trick-or-treating, parties as well as carved and decorated pumpkins. But the holiday has some ancient roots that date back to pagan traditions ...

Halloween is right around the corner. As people around the world gear up for the celebrations, a question often comes to the mind of the cultural purist: "How is this even relevant to us?" But the ...

Do you know Why Do We Say Trick or Treat? Halloween 2025 is on Friday, October 31, which means it's time for trick or treating. Every Halloween, millions of children don costumes and go door-to-door ...

Your device does not support the audio. Did you know that the modern celebration of Halloween, with its costumes and trick-or-treating, is a relatively recent phenomenon shaped by centuries of ...

Emer Harrington meets a fortune teller and comes away with ideas for self-care, dental care, and an interesting Samhain ritual There are smiles and spells as Emer Harrington and Stacey Walsh share a ...

We all know how commercial Halloween has become, with expensive dress-ups, trick-or-treat “candy” and fake cobwebs (please don’t – they kill birds!). But if you’ve ever dismissed Halloween as an ...