Even modern-day Halloween traditions, like wearing costumes and carving pumpkins, come from ancient Samhain practices.

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.

Halloween is an annual holiday, celebrated each year on October 31, that has roots in age-old European traditions. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light ...

ALEX SAMUEL stepped onto a stage where the likes of Elvis, Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton had wowed audiences before. The ...

Carved pumpkins are one of the long-standing traditions of Halloween. Carving these hollowed-out gourds has been an American tradition since the 1800s but ...

There’s no better way to welcome the holiday season than with a bit of Irish sparkle. "A Celtic Christmas" by A Taste of ...

Halloween's origins in ancient Celtic festivals and its integration with Christian holidays. Read how Costa Rica adapts the ...

The most famous legend associated with the tradition of carved Halloween vegetables takes us back to 18th-century Ireland. It ...

Many of the ancient Irish holy men and women came to us from the early, misty days of Christianity in Ireland. On All Saints' and All Souls' Days, it's a good time to remember some of them.

We’ve gathered a bunch of tricky Halloween trivia questions (with answers!) that cover everything from eerie literature and classic horror flicks to creepy creatures and the history of October 31st.