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

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 ...

“Members of a pagan Norse religion, called Odinism, hijacked by white nationalists, ritualistically sacrificed Abigail Williams and Liberty German,” his attorneys wrote in the documents seen ...

For Rev. Laura González, the business of being a witch is a little subversive — reflecting a female empowerment that she ...

I identify as pagan ... I believe in the powers of Mother Earth ... . My beliefs are personal, and I don’t discuss them with ...

Vivek Ramaswamy has been repeatedly confronted about his Hindu faith and how it fits into the US. The Republican politician was again questioned this week.

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 ...

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 ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I used to be religious, many years ago, but I now identify as pagan -- meaning that I believe in the ...

The appeal of Halloween is deeply rooted in the human fascination with fear and the supernatural, particularly in a modern world often seen as disenchanted and overly rational.

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 ...