Samhain marked New Year’s Day and fell around ... s celebration of saints from May 13 to November 1, to assimilate pagan influences as Christianity was working to win crucial converts.) ...

Ends is intended to close the Halloween saga, but how many Halloween movies are there, and which ones are considered canon?

The festival of Samhain, a prequel to what we recognize now as Halloween, was a Pagan festival that originated in Ireland. Ancient Celts would take part in the festival every year, and the story ...

“We have crafted ‘Aether’ to embody the essence of pagan ritual, with each track honouring the alchemical ... were written in honour of the “death cycle”, which begins at Samhain (the Witches New Year ...

And at Samhain they would duly be returned by the same shepherds. A proper pagan ritual. Or is it? As stated in the previous paragraph, some people think the whole thing is an elaborate hoax, set up ...

After a long winter it’s easy to see why our ancestors created rituals and festivals to celebrate the coming of spring. With ...

The Celts, the ethnic group that lived there 2000 years ago, celebrated a pagan holiday called Samhain from Oct. 31 to Nov. 1. They believed that the spirits of the dead came back to earth during this ...

Samhain is even mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature ... What Scripture says Does the Bible sanction witchcraft, witches, and sorcery? On the contrary,it states as stated in Leviticus 20 ...

Magic is real; witchcraft is not a fantasy and not something to be toiled ... Then when most other Christians have forgotten Halloween for another year I continue to pray because Samhain is not ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to ...

The Boyne Palace contains some of the most important historic sites and monuments in Ireland, including the massive, ancient passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, the pagan headquarters ...

The last witch trial in Germany took place 250 years ago. Yet a global study shows that the belief in witchcraft is still alive and well in the 21st century. "I'm a modern witch, I admit it," says ...