Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical ...

Not often - well, only once every seven years - do we get to talk about Halloween's Celtic origins on a Celtic Sojourn on the day itself. So, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn explores Halloween's ...

Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition popularised by Gerald Brosseau Gardner. It emphasises spells and rituals and honours a Triple Goddess and a Horned God. Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition.

An almost forgotten autumn tradition, known as Caking Night, is to be revived in Sheffield for the first time in years.

It seems as if very few students today actually believe in superstitions. Most deem them made-up sayings that come from uneducated people. “Superstitions were made up by idiots who were desperate for ...