More Americans are Wiccan, and will celebrate Samhain not Halloween Saturday. Oct. 30, 2009— -- Patti Wigington is a soccer mom. She is the vice president of her local PTA. And she's a witch.

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 ...

Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

On Halloween night, Charlene Dzielak will light candles and incense in front of an altar and invite her departed loved ones to join her in a "dumb supper," a feast eaten in silence out of reverence ...

It's spooky season again, so we'll soon see a slew of superheroes, tiny Ted Lassos, and all the old standbys — witches, vampires, and scary clowns — knocking at the door. Still, as familiar as ...

Helen A. Berger has received funding from the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and West Chester University. For most Americans, Halloween is ...

Druids, witches and other Pagans have been commemorating what they know as the festival of Samhain. Others equate Halloween with pumpkins and sweets, but for Pagans it is a time to summon spirits, ...

If there were any pointy hats donned at Sunday night’s Wiccan ritual, it was purely a fashion statement. Since 2000, Wood has practised Wicca, a newish religion that embraces some very old traditions: ...