Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

On Halloween night, Charlene Dzielak will light candles and incense in front of an altar and invite her departed loved ones to join her in a "dumb supper," a feast eaten in silence out of reverence ...

Before pumpkins, costumes, and candy, there was Samhain, the Celtic festival that marked the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. Celebrated on October 31st, it was believed that the veil ...