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 ...

Nowhere else in Greece have traditions rooted in the worship of Dionysus remained as vibrant as in Eastern Macedonia ...

Ah, it is almost springtime! And every parson knows what this means, because it is time for a flurry of weddings. Every faith does the rites of matrimony in slightly different ways, but they often ...

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 ...

COXSACKIE — Americans are so used to identifying Thanksgiving with the pilgrims and Christmas with Santa Claus the origins of the celebrations have long been lost. But Bronck Museum Curator Shelby ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain (pronounced SAW-en). But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature, ...