Berger, a sociology professor at Brandeis University in Boston studying pagan communities ... also referred to as Samhain, is considered the most important cross-quarter holiday for practicing ...

The spooky holiday has become synonymous with ghosts ... and means “summer’s end” in Gaelic. It is thought the pagan Samhain was Christianised into Halloween by the early church, and ...

Not Halloween as we know it, but many of the customs we practise today evolved from this Pagan festival. Pronounced ‘sow-en’, Samhain is a Gaelic holiday beckoning the ‘darker half’ of the ...

which marks the day before the Christian holiday of All Hallows’ Day, also known as All Saints’ Day. However, the origins of Halloween can be traced back to the pagan festival of Samhain ...

Costumed trick-or-treating takes its inspiration from the Celtic holiday Samhain—“summer’s end ... to assimilate pagan influences as Christianity was working to win crucial converts.) ...