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

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.

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 ...

As per the centuries-old tradition ... that the maypole is a pagan fertility symbol. “I doubt it,” she says. “It’s more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each year in Nashville, a joyous festival draws in spiritual seekers to experience the rich cultural traditions of the pagan ...

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 ...

For the last 15 years, the Christmas-time live version of the show has drawn on Celtic, Pagan, and Christian traditions to celebrate the music of the season. First launched in 2003, A Christmas Celtic ...

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 ...