They all get in costumes and go out for trick or treat. But there is another c. Es noticia: ... Samhain is a far older tradition that goes all the way back to the Celtic druids.

The powerful Celtic social class posed a threat to the Roman Empire before being subsumed by Christianity, but their origins remain shrouded in the past. Modern Druid leader Arthur Pendragon ...

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 ...

The Celts believed on this night, the veil between this and the otherworld became thin enough to allow Celtic priests, known as Druids, to engage in the art of divination. On this night, Druids built ...

Halloween can be traced back to the Druids, a Celtic culture in Ireland, Britain and northern Europe. Its roots lay in the Druid feast of Samhain, which fell annually on October 31 when the dead ...

Every Halloween, modern-day Druids go to the Hill of Ward in Co. Meath to welcome in the Celtic New Year. Before Christianity came to Ireland, Halloween was the pagan festival of Samhain, held to ...

The new Archbishop of Canterbury has been inducted as a druid in a centuries-old Celtic ceremony. Dr Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Wales, said that he had been "saddened" by the ...