But such misrepresentation of the North is unfair. Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan ...

Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations.

Anthropologist and pagan Lyn Baylis tells the BBC: "Fire rituals to bring light into the darkness were vital to Samhain, which was the second most important fire festival in the Pagan Celtic world ...

Samhain was the pivotal point of the Celtic Pagan new year, a time of rebirth ... "So there was a certain degree of cross-dressing in the ceremony of All Hallow's Eve." The Victorians loved ...

Halloween has been a global festival celebrated for centuries but many don’t realize that its roots lie in a pagan festival ...

From jack-o'-lanterns and cats to witches and vampires, Halloween has become synonymous with a set of spooky symbols, and ...

It was a Celtic holiday celebrated on Nov. 1 where ... to Nov. 1 to have the Christian holiday be a substitute for the pagan holiday of Samhain. The day before All Saints Day became known as ...

Halloween has become widely popular in the United States, especially in recent years. The National Retail Federation data ...

Supermarket shelves are buckling under the weight of pumpkins. Witch hats, cat ears and devil horns have been fetched down ...