The society will throw Salem's first Samhain Celtic New Year Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at Grant Community School as a form of fun, interactive education.

What exactly is the Samhain festival? Samhain is a Gaelic word pronounced 'SAH-win', it's an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition that is celebrated between October 31 and November 1.

After a yearlong hiatus because of COVID-19, Dzielak is reuniting with her coven — or congregation of witches — in Old Bridge to celebrate Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival marking the end ...

While local celebrants of Samhain may draw inspiration from a variety of spiritual traditions — including Celtic, neo-pagan, shamanic, witchcraft, Wicca, Druid and Native American — their ...

Samhain, pronounced saah-win or saa-ween, comes from the Gaelic word “Samhuin,” which means summer’s end. It is one of the eight annual Celtic festivals and one of eight "sabbats" that ...

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 ...

Samhain, an ancient Celtic harvest festival, has taken on new meaning for many in an era of COVID. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. News Bergen Passaic Sports HS Sports ...

Samhain is a festival that signals the end of the fall harvesting season and ushers in the beginning of winter, when the Celts would light fires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Nov. 1 was ...

Halloween is a holiday that goes beyond trick-or-treating, costumes and pranks. In fact, the holiday is related to Samhain, an ancient Gaelic festival. But what is that festival truly celebrating a… ...

THE origins of Halloween can be traced back to a Celtic festival called Samhain. But what was it, when did it take place, and what happened? What is Samhain? In the Celtic days, Britain was a Pagan… ...

Before the Roman conquest, the area around present-day Budapest was inhabited by a Celtic tribe, the Eravisci, who celebrated Samhain, the beginning of the dark season.

The Halloween traditions that we celebrate today, in America, originate from the Celtic pagan festival called “Samhain.“ The phrase is from ancient Gaelic. It means “end of summer ...