Presenting the round-up of Sheydmade's 2025 Halloween, Samhain, & Autumn Holidays & Rituals articles and pieces. Have a look through and consider bringing some of these traditions into your own holiday season! Happy Haunting!
A Soul! A Soul! A Soul Cake!: Traditional Spirit Offerings for Allhallowtide, Samhain, & Halloween — Explore the origins, purposes, and variations of soul cakes around the world, and enjoy a collection of soul cake recipes.
An Cailleach: the Queen of Winter — An Cailleach comes into her half of the year during the dark season, with many marking Samhain as the beginning of her time. This is a broad exploration of an Cailleach and the many roles she plays in the world of witchcraft and in the practices of her devotees.
Dining with the Dead: the Supper — a guide to hosting a Dumb Supper/Silent Supper as a method of communicating with or honoring the dead.
the Dumb Supper Divination Rite — Learn all about the original Dumb Supper, a folk divination ritual performed on Halloween, New Years, and other significant dates.
Hollers, Haints, & Hocus Pocus: Halloween in Southern Appalachia — an adoration of Southern and Southern Appalachian Halloween traditions, customs, superstitions, and lore.
Samhain: an Introduction — the history and origins of Samhain, a collection of traditional Samhain customs, and ways of incorporating historical Samhain traditions in contemporary practice.
Samhain Seeing: Traditional Samhain Divination Customs — a collection of traditional forms of folk divination customs from England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales, which are similar to (and in some cases the same as) many traditional divination customs within the Central and Western Europe and the Eastern and Southern United States.


















