Costumed trick-or-treating takes its inspiration from the Celtic holiday Samhain—“summer’s end” in Irish—more than 2,000 years ago. Samhain marked New Year’s Day and fell around ...

"This retreat offers a space to return to the body and welcome the full range of our feelings – heartbreak, grief, joy – ...

Ireland’s “Halloween Holiday” honors the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Historically, Samhain marked the end of harvest and the start of winter. Modern celebrations include Halloween ...

The Celtic holiday Samhain (pronounced sow-win) is normally celebrated from October 31 to November 1 to signify the end of summer and welcome in the new fall harvest and the dark half of the year.

According to Irish mythology, the cave is a portal to the Otherworld, and every Samhain, The Morrigan ... Just north of Boyle is the famous Gaelic Chieftain - a sight to behold!

The pagan roots of Halloween are well-documented. The holiday is rooted in the Celtic festival of Samhain, which came at summer's end. As Rogers explains, "Paired with the feast of Beltane, which ...

“Both ‘Matrum Noctem’ and ‘Veiled One’ were written in honour of the “death cycle”, which begins at Samhain (the Witches New Year ... this eerie offering honours The Cailleach, the Celtic goddess of ...

Samhain is even mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature. The Celtic peoples celebrated their New Year on November 1 and, like us with our New Year traditions, spent much of the night ...

In turn, they would be rewarded with sweet cakes. After the Celtic lands gradually converted to Christianity, the pagan holiday of Samhain was morphed into All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. The ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...