While December is a time billions around the world get jolly and celebrate Christmas, there are several other religious and cultural holidays that take place during the last month of the year. Here's ...

Kindergarten students in 1952 race out of school in Los Angeles, eager to celebrate Halloween. Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images “It’s alive!” Dr. Frankenstein cried as his ...

The first steps of carving out new traditions can feel a little bit awkward (after all, they aren’t tradition yet), but with time and repetition, they become like slipping into a pair of well-broken ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This is a busy time for Wiccans as they observe the pagan New Year. Today is Samhain (pronounced sow-in), the celebration of endings and beginnings and of remembering the dead.

BOTH: And you are listening to In The Know, a podcast dedicated to the University of Minnesota. HEINEN: We are less than a week out from Halloween, one of the most widely celebrated holidays in ...