(WHTM)– Kissing under the mistletoe is a long-standing holiday tradition, but why is it such a well-known tradition? As the tradition goes, if two people are standing under sprigs of mistletoe, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White berries fill a clump of mistletoe hanging from an oak. As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door ...

Stealing a smooch under the mistletoe is a time-honored holiday tradition — but the word itself has an origin that invokes the exact opposite of romance. As part of NPR's "Word of the Week" series, we ...

Pucker up, it’s time to hang your mistletoe! One of my favorite tales about mistletoe comes from Norse mythology, which started with Freya, the goddess of love and mother of Balder, the summer sun.

Mistletoes evolved the ability to grow not on the roots of trees, but instead on their branches. Frankie Angel / Alamy Baldur, grandson of the Norse god Thor, woke up one morning certain that each and ...

As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door selling sprigs of mistletoe in the weeks before Christmas. My mother always bought some and hung it along with some holly over a ...