Winter solstice traditions from around the globe Christmas isn’t the only time for a magical celebration—there’s also the ...

As millions around the world make merry during Christmas, few know that they will be celebrating an event deeply steeped in paganism. While December 25 is a day set aside to celebrate the day ...

Built from a hodgepodge of diverse parts, Halloween is one such tradition that has been continually reinvented since its ancient origins as a Celtic pagan ceremony. Yet beneath the superhero ...

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter solstice.

while the original draws on ancient Celtic pagan traditions and practices. The Summerisle villagers in The Wicker Man ...

So because these ideas and traditions had a lengthy history, Nazi propagandists were able to easily cast Christmas as a celebration of pagan German nationalism. A vast state apparatus (centered in ...

Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, though it also encompasses Greek, Roman and pagan traditions of giving gifts and feasting around the Winter Solstice. It is a time when ...

Americans once made their own costumes and candy. Now, the holiday has rapidly commercialized, transforming into an economic ...

There are many different beliefs about Halloween, some good and some not so good. Some believe it is a pagan festival ...

Variations on What Child Is This In his follow-up to the 2012 ARC release Keyboard Christmas, and his fifteenth recording as a leader, Michael Pagán presents a program of holiday themed tracks ranging ...