A man representing the Winter King holds a sword as he takes part in a sunset ceremony as they celebrate the Samhain old pagan festival. Nowadays, Halloween is a night synonymous with ghouls, gore ...

Observers of Lúnasa, the wheat harvest festival, erected this straw-filled representation of a deity while it was still light outside, before setting it on fire once the sun had set.

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic ...

What is the Harvest Festival and why do we celebrate it? ... It dates back hundreds of years to the pagan era when people relied on crops for food, and famers would give thanks for a good harvest.

Back in 1974, I was putting together a “Pagan-Craft” calendar—the first of its kind, as far as I know—listing the holidays, ... Mabon is a type of a harvest festival, so get harvesting!

If you love all things autumn — "leaf peeping" the fall foliage, picking apples, decking out your front stoop with gourds and corn stalks — then you might want to add another holiday to the calendar.

The ancient Celtic festival of Lughnasa (pronounced Loo-nah-sah) marked the start of the harvest season and with it, the end of months of deprivation. We take a look at the ancient Celtic festival ...

These include the Celtic Samhain, a pagan harvest festival, and its later Christian iteration, All Hallows' Eve. As immigrants from these areas settled in the U.S. in waves, ...

A man representing the Winter King holds a sword as he takes part in a sunset ceremony as they celebrate the Samhain old pagan festival. Nowadays, Halloween is a night synonymous with ghouls, gore ...

A man representing the Winter King holds a sword as he takes part in a sunset ceremony as they celebrate the Samhain old pagan festival. Nowadays, Halloween is a night synonymous with ghouls, gore ...