Halloween.
Halloween is layered — Celtic harvest festival, Christian holy day, immigrant tradition, and modern secular celebration, all stacked on top of each other. This section covers all of it, not just the witchy parts.
Where Halloween Actually Comes From →
The Celtic root, the Christian layer, and the immigration story that made it American.
Halloween Recipes →
Spiced cider, soul cakes, roasted pumpkin seeds, and the ancestor supper plate.
Halloween & Samhain Spells →
An ancestor remembrance, a threshold protection, and a thin-veil divination working.
Halloween Articles →
Six pieces on the real history behind trick-or-treating, black cats, jack-o'-lanterns, and more.
For kids & decorating
Costumes, pumpkin carving, and soul-cake baking (see Recipes) are easy, fun, and safe to include for kids — the ancestor and divination spells on the Spells page are better kept to solo or adult practice. And carved pumpkins have a real protective jack-o'-lantern tradition behind them, not just decor, if that framing appeals to you — see A Short History of the Jack-o'-Lantern.
See also: the Samhain sabbat page →
History, correspondences, ritual, and recipe for Samhain specifically, as one of the eight sabbats.