Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

In Solvang, a town known for its Christmas spirit, a pagan tree-burning ritual serves as the season's biggest highlight.

Pagans have many different beliefs. Rider believes in Norse traditions with an emphasis on gods like Odin and Thor. Others ...

Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few ...

No explorer reached there until 1926, leaving Santa, if he did live there, undisturbed in his workshop. The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia give some credibility to these ...

No explorer reached there until 1926, leaving Santa, if he did live there, undisturbed in his workshop. The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia give some credibility to these ...

of religiosity and paganism, and Levi-Strauss returns to the news underlining how the Dijon clergy, wanting to destroy Santa Claus, "did nothing other than restore to its entirety, after an ...

But Nast just showed Santa in a wintry landscape. It could have been the North Pole, and no one in 1866 had actually been to the Pole. The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia ...

“Many, many years,” said Mary Ellen Pankratz of Santa Maria when asked how long she’s attended the burn. “It’s just fascinating how the flames just go up and they get really ho ...

(Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) Julianne Pagan, a resident of Fremont who was house-sitting in Santa Cruz, noted the powerful waves roiling beneath her when she took her daily walk on the ...

Julianne Pagan, a resident of Fremont who was house-sitting in Santa Cruz, noted the powerful waves roiling beneath her when she took her daily walk on the wharf on Sunday. “Every time I walk on ...