Samhain: Pagan celebration honoring the dead (pronounced SOW-in) By Susan Fornoff , Chronicle Staff Writer Oct 29, 2008. Once a year, for the holiday of Samhain, Deborah Cooper, makes a martini ...

Samhain was the pivotal point of the Celtic Pagan new year, a time of rebirth – and death. "Pagans had three harvests: Lammas, harvest of the corn, on 1 August; the one of fruit and vegetables ...

Click here to read the full article. Celebrated from October 31 to November 1, Samhain was considered to be one of the most important ancient holidays in the Celtic and pagan traditions.

KEY POINTS. Halloween is believed to have partially developed from the ancient pagan festival Samhain; The Nov. 1 event marked the world of the gods becoming visible to mankind ...

Conclave of the Craft, a Columbia pagan society and church, is taking a more celebratory approach to Samhain, or Halloween for non-pagans, after nearly two years of COVID-19.

While many Valley residents will be using Halloween as an excuse to dress up in costume and eat candy, members of the Pagan community will gather today to celebrate Samhain (sa-win), the Celtic ...

Not often - well, only once every seven years - do we get to talk about Halloween's Celtic origins on a Celtic Sojourn on the day itself. So, this segment of A Celtic Sojourn explores Halloween's ...

Although Oct. 31 is most commonly associated with Halloween, it is also the day when many Pagans celebrate the harvest holiday of Samhain. Samhain, sometimes considered the spiritual or Celtic new ...

But for local witch and artist Amanda Yates Garcia, it’s also a time to commune with the spirits of the dead. That’s because she observes Samhain, the ancient Pagan festival often referred to as the ...