May 3, 2025 \| Last updated: May 3, 2025. Uncover the surprising pagan origins of some of our most cherished Chr ...

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.

Eggs and flowers are rather obvious symbols of female fertility, but in European traditions ... parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but he was unsuccessful, and the ...

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 ...

Christmas and Easter are both — to some extent — rebranded versions of existing pagan holidays. Easter has managed to ... about the holiday in books for adults ("An Easter Celebration: Traditions and ...

After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in 966, the pagan celebrations of Kupala Night fell into disfavour. Nevertheless, efforts to ...

Pajor Pawel/Shutterstock Having trees over the winter period is a tradition so old that it actually predates Christmas. Evergreen plants, whose leaves remain throughout the year, were used in pagan ...

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 ...