In an age of spiritual isolation, witches are flocking to the woods of Ireland and elsewhere to form covens of ‘sisterhood’ ...

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. Kindergarten students in 1952 race out of school in Los Angeles, eager to celebrate Halloween. Los Angeles Examiner/USC ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 1,600-year-old pagan idol, made from a wooden pole carved from an oak tree, has been unearthed in a bog in western Ireland. Archaeologists say the idol dates to the very late stage of pagan Ireland, ...

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, ...