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

Do you prefer yours with sultanas and spices, or Vegemite and cheese? However you eat them, hot cross buns reflect centuries of tradition – and superstition.

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

In many countries, Easter is still the day of days. But in America, we're all about Christmas -- divested, mostly, of its religious trappings.

Christmas and Easter are both — to some extent — rebranded versions of existing pagan holidays ... books for adults ("An Easter Celebration: Traditions and Customs from Around the World ...

Take a drive along the Avalon Peninsula’s Cape Shore or Killick Coast this May, and you may come upon an unfamiliar type of ...

Jewish people have also shared special bread during holy times like Passover, and scholars have debated whether these customs influenced early Christian bread traditions. Pagan Saxons worshipped a ...

While Bealtaine may have had fewer foods associated with it than other festivals, milk, butter and eggs did feature highly ...