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 ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical origins of trick or treating, Halloween costumes and jack o’ lanterns.… ...

Before there was Halloween, there was Samhain (say "SAH-win").It was a Celtic festival celebrated about 2,000 years ago. People in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man would take part.

Samhain is the original Pagan celebration at Hallowe'en. Intrigued, BBC Somerset's Helen Otter headed over to the Goddess Temple in Glastonbury to take part in the ceremony and to find out what it ...