Samhain is one of the four major quarter days of the ancient Celtic calendar. It marks the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, or the end of the light half and the beginning of the ...

Halloween is here! And with October 31 comes Samhain, the Celtic feast day from which Halloween as we know it was born. Celtic blessings are the perfect way to describe the dark element of this ...

In fact, it dates back more than 2,000 years, to Ireland and an ancient Celtic fire festival called Samhain. The exact origins of Samhain predate written records but according to the Horniman ...

It came out of a much older Celtic festival the well-known Samhain, pronounced “sow-in,” which dates back more than 2,000 years. In Ireland, long ago they began to celebrate the Celtic holiday ...

Celebrating Day of the Dead in Los Angeles became the bridge for Paso Robles ceremonial priestess Charlotte Eléa Dovechild to ...

Halloween, celebrated on October 31, is a festival of costumes, candies, spooky tales, and ghostly decorations, enjoyed across many parts of the world. However, the origins of Halloween run much ...

MILTON — Call it Halloween or Samhain (sow-in), the last day of October has traditionally been known as the day the “veil” between the realms of the living and the dead is thin enough to ...

Ireland is considered the birthplace of Halloween, with a number of festivals and parade held across the island, including the Samhain Festival in Limerick City. While Halloween holds quite the ...

Galway’s ConTempo Quartet will celebrate Samhain with a concert of otherworldly music in Claregalway Castle this Saturday, ...