Day of the Dead celebrations changed during COVID, shaped by anxieties about the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender violence.

Halloween is an ancient holiday that originated from attempts to scare away evil spirits and bad luck. Despite our ...

On the night of October 31 to November 1, one of the most mysterious holidays is celebrated around the world — Halloween, also known as All Saints' Eve. Candles in pumpkins, costumes of evil spirits ...

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.

Everyone has their own traditions at this time of the year - building bonfires, baking a brack or bobbing for apples – but ...

Lancashire was reputed to be a lawless county and an area where Roman Catholic recusants could hide ... At Hallowe’en, modern ...

Explore Halloween’s global roots from Celtic Samhain to Mexico’s Día de los Muertos and the holiday’s modern evolution across ...

In Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, men dressed as devils leap over infants in the El Colacho festival, a centuries-old ritual ...

He’s written some of the most astonishing fiction of the past thirty years—works that defy explanation and linger like spells ...

The phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" was commonly posted at Wolrd War II-era concentration camps. Thursday, it also landed on a float in the Hanover Halloween parade.

The float included a replica of the Auschwitz concentration camp gate, Bishop Timothy C. Senior of Harrisburg said in an ...

A Catholic diocese in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has condemned Holocaust imagery that appeared on a Catholic school’s Halloween parade float on Thursday.