The origins of Halloween traditions go back to an ancient Celtic festival involving animal sacrifice and a cave of demons in Rathcroghan, Ireland. Mike McCarthy, a tour guide at Rathcroghan, joins us.
In the United States, Halloween has boomed into the second-largest commercial holiday, generating billions in sales annually. While many Costa Ricans have adopted this tradition, others reject it as ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...
One of the possible origins of telling ghost stories on Halloween ties to ancient Celts! One possible origin for telling scary stories around Halloween is found thousands of years ago with the Celts ...
Celts celebrated the festival of Samhain on October 31 to mark the start of a new year. Thinking that on this night the dead would rise again, they carved scary faces into turnips to ward off evil ...
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A professor of Celtic studies at a Welsh university has written a scathing review of a new book claiming that there was no such thing as Celts. Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, a professor of Welsh ...
SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) - Sherman's Celtic Festival hosts a number of games, foods, and live music performances. Even with entertainment being a major part of the festivities, organizers are making sure ...