Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest ... Isle of Halloween, the holiday is typically celebrated at night, so it is naturally associated with the color black. Orange, on ...

If Oct. 31 isn't about carving pumpkins and collecting candy, then what is Halloween, really? Here's the scoop!

Cupcakes became another holiday favorite and would often be topped with icing in orange and black, which represented harvest and death and were fast becoming Halloween's official colors.