Samhain was real and important in medieval Ireland. Hutton traces the pagan New Year and festival of the dead to scholars ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - TWH wishes our readers in the northern half of the world a blessed Samhain and in the southern half ...

Halloween approaches this Saturday, October 31, 2026. On the same day, the Samhain portal remains meaningful, and its ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ancient precursor to Halloween, Samhain commemorates the end of the harvest and the onset of the "dark half" of the year. As ...

Samhain and Pitru Paksha developed in different cultural and religious settings. However, their rituals, calendars and ...

It’s Samhain season, a time of year I’ve heard referred to more than once as “Pagan Christmas.” With so many different spiritualities present at Patheos Pagan I reached out to our writers and asked ...

Samhain is not everyone’s favorite sabbat, but it is truly the season of the Witch. Halloween Witches dominate holiday displays, and it’s the one time of year the rest of the world seems to truly ...

Many Wiccans, Druids and other pagans across the globe will be marking the beginning of their spiritual new year with the two-day festival of Samhain. The most widely observed pagan festival begins ...

Word on the street's been pretty kind to witches in recent years, what with kids embracing the sorcery of the Harry Potter novels and Broadway glorifying blond Glinda and green Elphaba in the fluffy ...