There has also been a modern rethinking of Samhain, the old Irish festival that was blended with various other pagan traditions around the world to become Halloween, which went to America with the ...

During Samhain, celebrants would light fires in family ... Halloween soon became common when Irish immigrants came to the ...

and burning bonfires are also thought to have roots in Samhain. A 19th-Century Irish legend that coincides with this holiday is that of Stingy Jack, who bested the devil but was consequently ...

Teddy is played by Irish actor and musician Ger Kelly ... and he was the young teenager who disappeared at the Samhain ...