From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of ...

Richard Allen, charged with the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, claims the girls were actually murdered ...

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween ... while crops and animals were offered as ritual sacrifices to be burned. Fun fact: the word “bonfire” comes ...

In court documents released last year, the then-50-year-old local man maintained his innocence of the 2017 killings and instead claimed that the murders were carried out by a pagan cult hijacked ...

The true measure of di Cosimo’s beautiful, pagan, Renaissance soul can be seen in a work such as “Perseus Liberating Andromeda” (c. 1510–15) at the Uffizi, in which the eponymous character ...

While many anime series feature the trope of one character making some sort of grand sacrifice, there are some in the medium that stand out as the greatest anime sacrifices of all time ...

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It's the time of year — tradition says — when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is lifted. That ...

Costumes, bonfires, and sacrifices to deities were part of their ... the Roman Catholic Church made many attempts to supplant various pagan celebrations with Christian ones. All Saints’ Day ...

Richard Allen, charged with the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, claims the girls were actually murdered by believers of the pagan religion Defense attorneys for the man ...