Today, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns is ... turnips was the more common practice (at least in Ireland and other Celtic nations). The spooky tradition was part of Samhain, an ancient ...

Celtic rituals, tricks of nature ... setting a merrily macabre mood. For decades, carving a pumpkin has been a beloved fall tradition in America, celebrated with parties, festivals, and televised ...

But it wasn’t just in the name of spooky fun. In the 19th and early 20th century, people in Ireland and other Celtic domains carved faces into root vegetables. They most notably turned to ...

A free to enter family-friendly festival celebrating Wales’ ancient woodlands and traditional rural crafts is set to take ...

"In the 5th Century, there were three languages in use: Latin - still spoken after the end of the Roman occupation and two Celtic languages ... The tradition of carving stones dates back to ...

The Celtic quality of the voices in tone production ... demonstrating the instrument that was created in 1992 from 10th-century carvings such as this one.