Celebrate south Louisiana's Celtic roots this weekend at Gulf Brew and the Celtic Halloween Fest, held in downtown Lafayette on Oct. 19.

Halloween has roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain and later merged with Christian holidays, resulting in today's celebration.

The Halloween traditions that we celebrate today, in America, originate from the Celtic pagan festival called “Samhain.“ The phrase is from ancient Gaelic. It means “end of summer ...

Halloween was born from the Celts, who populated what is now the United Kingdom, Ireland and northern France more than 2,000 years ago. On the Celtic calendar, Nov. 1marked the beginning of the new ...

Halloween, one of the most popular celebrations of the year, traces its origins to an ancient Celtic festival called Samhain.

Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present a Celtic and Québécois Music Festival featuring Cantrip, Cécilia, and Keith Murphy & Yann Falquet on Monday at 3 p.m. at ...

The modern practice of dressing up at Halloween is firmly rooted in these old pre-Christian Celtic customs, as is the tradition of lighting bonfires, which began on hilltops in Ireland with clans ...