Call it Halloween or Samhain (sow-in), the last day of October has traditionally been known as the day the “veil” between the ...

Guckian, a dancer, artist, farmer and folklorist, is one of a number of experts featured in Na Féilte Tine ( The Fire ...

Halloween is Thursday, Oct. 31. You'll be able to show off your costume without worrying about a heavy jacket or raincoat.

As the long, dark nights roll in swiftly like the mist that appears on the autumnal Irish landscape, it’s easy to imagine how ...

Eyeing the big business of holiday music, a few of pop’s major players are trying to expand the market for Halloween hits.

Samhain, which is on November 1, is believed to be the start of the Celtic New Year when people thought that the ‘veil’ ...

Samhain, my Wiccan friends told me years ago, was the time of year when the veil that sits between the worlds is thinnest.

The enormous popularity of what was once a non-event owes a lot to Washington Irving and the lower Hudson Valley.

Halloween, celebrated on October 31, is a festival of costumes, candies, spooky tales, and ghostly decorations, enjoyed ...

Halloween has changed over time, usually by those in power. Everything from Christians assimilating the pagan fest to setting ...

In the late 1800s, there was a move to mold holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, ...

November 2024's astrological calendar includes a spiritual new moon, Pluto entering Aquarius, and a Thanksgiving Mercury retrograde.