It was October 31, 1894, in Washington, DC.For a long time in North America, Halloween spelt trouble. What had started as the importation of quaint Celtic folklore by Irish immigrants in the mid-19th ...
Pronounced ‘sow-en’, Samhain is a Gaelic holiday beckoning the ‘darker half’ of the year. It takes place on the evening of 31 October through to 1 November as the Celtic day begins and ...
You'll also learn about Samhain, the Celtic festival thought to be the origin of modern-day Halloween, as well as the reason why black and orange are the colors that have come to symbolize the ...