Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

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Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical ...

Dr Rebecca Beattie loves Hallowe’en – or Samhain, as she calls it – but for altogether more spiritually uplifting reasons ...

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Halloween’s pagan roots date back approximately two thousand years to Ireland, where ancient Celts wore costumes to ward off ...