From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – traditions. With its goblins, goosebumps and rituals – from bobbing ...

It is fitting that Samhain, now transformed into Halloween, should still be celebrated with pumpkins and ghosts in modern ...

Such was the fate of the Pagan feast of Samhain, and so too did the death rituals of the Nahua come ... of existence that counts bones as seeds and birth and death as equal blessings.

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween ... while crops and animals were offered as ritual sacrifices to be burned. Fun fact: the word “bonfire” comes ...

Pagan and Christian elements have been fused in Halloween for centuries. In the 1800s, Irish immigrants brought their Halloween traditions to the Americas and mass media have spread elements of ...

As the audience applauds wildly and the camera swoops in on host John Oliver, he carries out a ritual. John drums his hands on his desk, extends his arms out wide, says “welcome” three times ...

“Not every pagan will call themselves a witch, but a lot of them do work with different kinds of rituals and spells ... life ...

Time and Date of birth is an integral input for astrology calculations. It is based on the birth date that most of astrology reports and readings are generated. A person's zodiac sign, birth star, ...

The defense team believes that the crime scene shows clear signs of ritual murder that point to a branch of Norse paganism called Odinism. The state has argued that investigators dismissed that theory ...

The couple filed for divorce on Aug. 30 after 21 years of marriage Tiffany Rose/Getty Leah Remini and Angelo Pagán are officially separated. The couple finalized their uncontested divorce on Oct ...

Celebrated usually from 31 October to 1 November, the religious rituals of Samhain (pronounced "sow-win", meaning summer's end), focused on fire, as winter approached. Anthropologist and pagan Lyn ...