Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Celtic festival of Samhain celebrates a time of year when the division between Earth and the otherworld collapses, allowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fall brings a festive lineup of holidays, but one stands out for its costumes, candy, spooky fun and centuries of tradition: ...

Celebrating the very Irish holiday of Halloween, we take a look at some wonderful Irish stories across America and the beautiful Irish gifts and products available. In case you didn't know Halloween's ...

Halloween may have been invented by the Irish, but it was the Americans who turned it into the spookfest it is today. Halloween was invented by the Irish, but when I first moved here it wasn't that ...

As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, the scary and the haunted. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and witches are prominently displayed in yards, windows, stores and community ...

As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, the scary and the haunted. Ghosts, zombies, skeletons and witches show up in yards, windows and stores. Festivities revolve around ...

Halloween is thought to have its origins in the pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrated on November 1, when the spirits of those who had died during the previous year were allowed to pass ...

What it’s about: Whether it’s costumes, candy, or the timeless appeal of going door-to-door threatening your neighbors, everyone loves Halloween. What started as Samhain, (pronounced “sow-in”)—an ...

A Halloween gallery display is pictured at the Museum of Country Life in County Mayo, Ireland. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy National Museum of Ireland.) Listen DUBLIN, Ireland — As the seasonal carving ...

ATHBOY, Ireland (Reuters) - Irish pagans gathered at an ancient sacred site on Wednesday night to mark the festival of Samhain - a precursor of Halloween - with bonfires and a procession to honor the ...

Halloween isn't. The Irish often get credit—or blame—for the bonfires, pranksters, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and beggars who wander from house to house, threatening tricks and soliciting treats. The ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...