Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

A special Halloween celebration awaited antique lovers at the Roman Archaeological Park and Museum in Budapest. Although many people associate Halloween with the United States, the festival has Celtic ...

Not often - well, only once every seven years - do we get to talk about Halloween's Celtic origins on a Celtic Sojourn on the day itself. So, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn explores Halloween's ...

It is almost an oxymoron, Halloween parades and silenced voices of subjugated peoples. Yet, the autumn leaves and the last sun-baked days of moderate temperatures do yield this look back to the ...

Oct. 31 -- Don't worry about being hexed by a witch this Halloween. You're more likely to be zapped by a fairy stroke or ripped apart by a buggane. Well, at least that's what the ancient Celts who ...

As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, the scary and the haunted. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and witches show up in yards, windows and stores. Festivities revolve around ...

Halloween today is about candy, costumes, and spooky fun, with children dressed as superheroes and princesses going door-to-door collecting treats. At the same time, adults attend parties and decorate ...

Think of Halloween and what springs to mind? If Tootsie Rolls and Dum Dums, Snickers, or Reese’s are how you celebrate Samhain, you might want to brush up on your history. The most important of the ...

While many Valley residents will be using Halloween as an excuse to dress up in costume and eat candy, members of the Pagan community will gather today to celebrate Samhain (sa-win), the Celtic ...

The last time Halloween fell on a Friday was in 2014, and the last time the holiday fell on a Saturday was in 2009.