With crowded celebrations of Ireland’s patron saint no longer appealing to her, Nicola Brady discovers why St Brigid’s women-led festivities are worth a trip to the Emerald Isle ...

The carnation is one of January's birth flowers, ushering in the year with its slightly spicy scent and color variations.

According to superstition, if Phil comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and sees his shadow, it will scare him enough ...

Many Christian holidays we observe today are based on pagan holidays that were so ingrained ... it was a festival devoted to the dead and coincides with Halloween today. The church turned that ...

Samhuinn (or Samhain) used to be a pagan festival at the end of the harvest season ... The little ones can find out about the origins and traditions of Halloween in Scotland and help to carve a scary ...

Tower: Halloween as celebrated in the USA is a somewhat diluted version of various traditions mostly stemming from medieval ... I think the term "witch" is loosely used nowadays and the rise is in ...

Carnival in the Netherlands is a melting pot of Dutch traditions with Italian ... Back in the day, carnival was actually a pagan holiday, with evidence that the celebration is around 5.000 years old.

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure.

Watching a groundhog emerge from a cozy burrow in early February feels quintessentially American, but the tradition of turning to animals to predict the spring comes from pre-Christian pagan ...

Whether by brewing a cleansing tea, baking a honeyed bannock, or leaving a symbolic offering to nature — engaging in these ...