Fortune-telling bread to meals for the dead, discover how food shaped Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival behind Halloween.

There has been something on my mind of late – the unwritten rules of how to behave when in group settings. This is in person, although it could apply to online groups as well. I have been ruminating ...

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, ...

Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour. This week I will discuss certain symbols used in Heathenry, Wicca, Celtic Paganism, and other Pagan belief systems and practices. Symbolic jewelry I wear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kindergarten students in 1952 race out of school in Los Angeles, eager to celebrate Halloween. Los Angeles Examiner/USC ...

Not often - well, only once every seven years - do we get to talk about Halloween's Celtic origins on a Celtic Sojourn on the day itself. So, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn explores Halloween's ...

The term "Paganism" may conjures up images of witches or other occult practices. If so, learning more about the history of Paganism, as well as its modern forms, is probably a good idea right about ...

The research conducted in this study focuses on the concepts of society, social classes, and religion in ancient Ireland, specifically the 5th century. The research conducted in this study focuses on ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How was Halloween invented? – Tillman, age 9, ...