This ancient Celtic festival is full of tricks, treats, and stories.

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain – pronounced SAW-en. But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...

Celtic shamanism might not have been called ‘shamanism’ – but the various roles and expressions for spiritual exploration existed within traditional Celtic communities. We lack historical evidence, ...