For most Americans, Halloween is a fun holiday when homes are decorated with symbols of the supernatural – witches, goblins and spirits – and costumed children go door to door collecting candy.

As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori. All of ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Gory ghouls and fang-bearing vampires may bang the doors for candy or heave toilet paper into trees in your neighborhood come Halloween. But the season takes on a more spiritual ...

Since the COVID pandemic began, Melanie Wilbur of Mount Holly has celebrated the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain with small, muted ceremonies. Last year, Wilbur and the other members of her coven — ...

Slate contributor Lee Ann Kinkade was online on Washingtonpost.com to chat with readers about her Wiccan faith and the hassles of trying to organize a coven for Halloween. An unedited transcript of ...

In October and November, Connecticut Wiccans and pagans are celebrating the Halloween season and the end of autumn with Samhains, an annual religious ritual that marks the final harvests, the coming ...

LAS CRUCES - The annual Pagan Pride Day returns to Las Cruces’ Pioneer Women’s Park Saturday, Oct. 30 as part of an international effort to educate and bring awareness to pagan beliefs. Pagan ...