Not all Cornish rituals are ancient. Swimming on Christmas Day at Bude and Coverack started as a bet, and is now very much an ...

Many people view the likes of town crying and Morris dancing as dying British traditions, uniquely performed by bearded men ...

The traditions we celebrate for Christmas goes back to ... The fact of the matter is, that a lot of people now know about the story of Jesus because of this Christmas celebration that has pagan ...

It’s time for a Spring Clean and Clothes and shoes recycling are all a part of this. Pancake Day has just passed, and lovely ...

The traditional pagan Hal-an-Tow ceremony is something ... It’s a revival of many of the traditional Cornish midwinter customs and Christmas traditions formerly practised in and around the ...

Although today's commercialized Christmas is considered distinctly American, the festival was banned in the nation's earliest days. New England's Puritan leaders considered it a pagan or papist ...

Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects, many steeped in tradition, as they elect the next pope.

Mr Smith said winter in the valley and the festivities are all about the pagan traditions of scaring the evil spirits from the apple orchard, and this will be at the heart of each event.

But when Pope John II was elected in 533 A.D., he changed the precedent, opting for John over his given name, Mercurius, probably to shed associations with the pagan Roman god, said Vanessa ...

Turns out there are many hangovers from pagan cultures that we still use today—let’s take a look at some of the most popular.

A new documentary explains why you are likely to see so many Christmas trees in the sand dunes, and how they protect the coastal town from flooding. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...