What we call timeless Halloween rituals are, in truth, inventions of culture, commerce, and reinvention. Halloween is one of America’s favorite holidays—a night of costumes, candy, and glowing ...

Halloween traditions have been around as long as people can remember, with their festiveness originating in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain – a ritual that celebrates the end of summer and the ...

Halloween is all about spooky fun (costumes, candy, haunted houses, and scary stories), but not everyone celebrates it the same way. Around the world, different countries have their own unusual and ...

Autumn leaves, the last sun-baked days of moderate temperatures, and neighborhood yard decorations summon this look back to the origins of Halloween. We can credit Julius Caesar and his staff writers, ...

We hope you have your costumes, pumpkins and candy ready: Halloween is just days away! An estimated 73% of Americans celebrate the spooky holiday, adding up to over 250 million people. Despite being ...

Derry Halloween is Europe’s biggest Halloween festival, turning the city into a multi-day celebration of the ancient Celtic tradition of Samhain—the origin of Halloween. The festival draws global ...

Some Halloween traditions come and go, but trick-or-treating and spooky costumes are timeless. Bobbing for apples was popular in the 1940s, and glitter paint costumes were big in the 1970s. Vintage ...

An estimated 73% of Americans celebrate the spooky holiday, adding up to over 250 million people. Despite being widely celebrated, it's not a federal holiday. In fact, its roots are found across the ...

Throughout the years, many San Francisco Halloween traditions have arisen, perhaps most notably the Castro’s once-epic Halloween rager that at one point drew half a million people to the neighborhood ...

On any night during the week leading up to Halloween at UNC, you’ll see battalions of jack-o'-lanterns guarding front porches, spot becostumed revelers traversing Franklin Street between bacchanals, ...