
Samhain: The Ancient Gaelic Festival That Gave Us Halloween
Long before Halloween became a billion-dollar celebration of plastic skeletons, candy corn, and questionable costume choices, the ancient Gaelic people of Ireland and Scotland were

Long before Halloween became a billion-dollar celebration of plastic skeletons, candy corn, and questionable costume choices, the ancient Gaelic people of Ireland and Scotland were

“Sometimes we have to travel to unknown places to find things we didn’t know we’d lost, and to repair parts of us we didn’t know

The days used to be warmer. I used to feel the sun on my face and the light on my skin, and I would run

Does anyone know where this is so that I don’t go there and trespass? Wouldn’t want to meet a bunch of goth girls in big

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” — Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly

When I was 7 years old, I was Chewbacca for Halloween. The body of the costume was made out of a sheet of plastic, the
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