Some witches celebrate the new year on Halloween Samhain is an ancient Gaelic fire festival that celebrates the new year, so many witches celebrate a brand new year on Halloween night.

Wiccan celebrations of Samhain vary and include fire ceremonies, feasting, costuming, and rituals that honor the dead and revere the natural world.

Learn how to celebrate Halloween or Samhain like a real witch, with altar cleansing, scrying, and tarot reading rituals.

Some eat special Sabbat cakes. Aubrianna Myers, a kitchen witch who is a priestess of the Cabot-Kent Hermetic Temple, makes special Sabbat cakes on Samhain.

Samhain means "summer's end" in Gaelic and is believed to have been a precursor to Halloween. Witches usher in the holiday, which traditionally begins on the evening the 31st, with bonfires ...

On Samhain, a festival celebrated by ancient people, the lines between the Otherworld of the dead and the realm of the living were weakened.

But, since Samhain (Sah-win) is a pagan high holiday and also the halfway point between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, there are rituals adhered to.

Serpa, 47, and Stone, 29, are among Valley-based witches who will be celebrating Samhain from Monday evening through Tuesday evening.

She could ride her bike to Harmony Moon in Staunton on Oct. 28 for the Samhain ritual at 11:30 a.m. Before you get all "Wizard of Oz" about bike-riding witches, consider how easy it was to call up ...

A practicing witch offers the best advice on how to make the most out of Halloween the easy way and gives a history behind all of our favorite traditions.

But for local witch and artist Amanda Yates Garcia, it’s also a time to commune with the spirits of the dead. That’s because she observes Samhain, the ancient Pagan festival often referred to as the ...