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 ...

They liked the idea of carvings and asked us to take on the project. “We were working with this idea of Celtic tribes. These trees are dying and in the past they’d have been cut to a stump ...

Historians have recreated a 2,300-year-old Iron Age log boat hand-carved from a tree trunk ... have been built by the Durotriges, an ancient Celtic tribe that inhabited Dorset, to navigate ...

Three years ago, researchers excavated a vast Celtic necropolis in central France ... in their sheaths—one of which was decorated with carved swastikas. Archaeologists from the National ...