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 ...
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 ...
An intriguing motion is before Edinburgh councillors today, calling on officers to spend time writing up a report to explore whether Hallowe’en should become a public holiday.
JUNGThe author is a professor of archaeology at the University of Toronto.I went “trick or treating” with my 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter on Halloween evening. Children go from house to house to get ...
The series revealed that the young man accompanying Agatha and the rest of the Coven on their journey along the Witches' Road was actually Wanda Maximoff's son, Wiccan. This was something that a ...