The Wassail of the Church of the Eternal Circle’s Mary Lwyd will return Saturday, Nov. 8, bringing a lesser-known Celtic tradition to New Paltz and Highland, an ...

HIGHLAND, N.Y. — The first-ever Wassail of the Church of the Eternal Circle’s Mari Lwyd will be held Saturday, Nov. 16, bringing a lesser-known Celtic tradition to New Paltz and Highland, according to ...

These rituals rooted in the pagan origins of Halloween invite us to reflect on the past, connect with spirits, celebrate loved ones, and plan how we will enrich our lives moving forward.

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.

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 ...

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 ...

Halloween is here! And with October 31 comes Samhain, the Celtic feast day from which Halloween as we know it was born. Celtic blessings are the perfect way to describe the dark element of this Irish ...

"I think that the witch crawl is helping us realize that more community exists than we thought," said Krista Hudson-Melone.