Grave goods buried with the dead, such as jewelry and weapons, could be relics of paganism that remained as Christianity rose ...

Christmas is the most celebrated of Christian holidays, commemorating what the faithful believe was the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But many of the season's most enduring symbols ...

Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its pre ...

Though December 25 is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the date itself and several of the customs we've come to associate with Christmas actually evolved from pagan traditions ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pagan rituals and Catholic customs may be behind many of the traditions that have come to define modern Halloween, the world's most ...

You know the bumper sticker, of course. Around 350 A.D., you might have seen it on any passing chariot. Or plastered on the back of an ox cart. And if it wasn't, it should have been. Time to take a ...

IN 1870, at the wish of Queen Victoria, who regarded it as un-Christian, the most ancient of the Christmas festivals, that of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, was elided from the British calendar of ...