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. Read ...

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. Read ...

Samhain, the Celtic Feast of the Dead (Féile na Marbh), was the forebearer of modern-day Halloween. This article appears courtesy of sister publication Irish America magazine.To read more of ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval ...

Samhain was one of the quarters of the old Irish year Bliadhain, and the feast of Samhain, which the Gaelic Society commemorated last night at No. 17 West Twenty-eighth-street, was the feast of ...

On Samhain, a festival celebrated by ancient people, the lines between the Otherworld of the dead and the realm of the living were weakened. Op-Ed: Halloween's Celtic roots are spookier than ...

The ancient festival of Samhain paved the way for what we know today as Halloween. ... And with October 31 comes Samhain, the Celtic feast day from which Halloween as we know it was born.

According to early Irish literature, as well as traditional folklore collected in the 19th century, Samhain of long ago was a time for people to come together, under a command of peace, to feast ...

The festival of Samhain appears in medieval Irish literature as a time for feasting and merriment, with the High King’s Feast of Tara taking place on Halloween in several medieval sagas.

Halloween undermines the very basis of the Church, which was founded on the blood of martyrs who had refused, by giving up their lives, to partake in any form of idolatry. The holy Church must take a ...

For two millennia, Samhain, the night of Oct. 31, has marked the turn from summer to winter on the Irish calendar. It was one of four seasonal signposts in agricultural and pastoral societies.