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.

As dusk falls Sunday and hordes of Southwest Michigan kids in costume begin ringing doorbells for treats, many local practitioners of Earth-based spirituality will be gathering in sacred circles, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters Life!) - The following are five facts about the witch religion of Wicca and Halloween, known as the Wiccan New Year of Samhain: * The word "witchcraft" has three main connotations: the ...

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 ...