The thing with vising Pagan sites in Cornwall is that it’s quite hard to pin down what ‘Pagan’ actually means. Pagan and specifically Celtic religious sites were often based in sacred groves ...

Every early spring, the southern Hungarian town of Mohács hosts an ancient pagan festival. The streets fill with men wearing wooden masks and thick woolly cloaks in a centuries-old tradition. The ...

May Day ushers in summer and is an important cross-quarter day − just like Halloween − falling midway between an equinox and ...

Since the mid-1990s, Halloween has embedded itself, albeit weakly, in Swiss cultural life. “Like Oktoberfests, which now also intoxicate town and country in Switzerland,” wrote the St. Galler ...

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 ...