How to Celebrate Samhain Trick-or-treating began when townsfolk would go door-to-door singing to honor the dead. It was believed that mischievous fairies, ghosts, and spirits “tricked” or ...

Say it again - Sow-Unn. With ' The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ' landing on Netflix this weekend, Irish people and pagans who know how to pronounce Samhain have been enjoying how the series ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical origins of trick or treating, Halloween costumes and jack o’ lanterns.… ...

Think of Samhain as the original Halloween, but one of the significant differences between them is that Samhain has a much deeper meaning than costumes and trick-or-treating.

Back in the day, Halloween was a pagan festival called Samhain. There are so many different Gaelic ways to say Samhain, but I recently read that the correct way to pronounce it is SAV-ahn. The ...

Few probably associate the lighthearted traditions of Halloween with their origins in Samhain, an ancient Celtic pagan festival.

October 31 brings the celebration of Samhain, the halfway point between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. It marks the beginning of the “darker half” of the year. The autumn harvest is ...