From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Religion is a hot, sometimes tensely debated, topic. Few spiritual traditions face as much stigma as paganism. Paganism is ...

October 31st is Halloween - a celebration going back centuries.The largely American tradition of trick-or-treating - children dressing up, going around the neighbourhood, collecting sweets from locals ...

The defense team believes that the crime scene shows clear signs of ritual murder that point to a branch of Norse paganism called Odinism. The state has argued that investigators dismissed that theory ...

But for members of the minority religion of Wicca and witchcraft, part of contemporary paganism, Halloween has never been primarily a children’s holiday. As a sociologist doing research on ...

Celebrated usually from 31 October to 1 November, the religious rituals of Samhain (pronounced "sow-win", meaning summer's end), focused on fire, as winter approached. Anthropologist and pagan Lyn ...