Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

The Days of the Dead are happening this weekend and you will probably observe ancient rituals in some way. But do you really know what they are and where they come from? Everyone knows the secular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Jesus is ...

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 ...

Belarussian people swim in a river while celebrating Ivan Kupala Night, a traditional Slavic holiday, 270km south of Minsk in Turov. During the celebration, originating in pagan times, people plait ...

Only once, and only in the King James Version of the Bible, is the Greek word "Pascha" translated as Easter in (Acts 12:4). All other current versions properly translate "Pascha" as "Passover." Easter ...