This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

Hot cross buns have long heralded the start of Easter in the western world, with the marked cross on top a symbol of ...

Fluffy, innocent, and hopping with joy, the bunny has become the cheerful face of the holiday. But behind the sugary smiles ...

There are other European Easter traditions involving hares, including eating their meat and hunting them. One report from ...

Eggs and flowers are rather obvious symbols of female fertility ... In 1790, the local parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but he was unsuccessful, and the custom ...

SIMILAR FINDS IN TIME AND PLACE: Hoard of Bronze Jewelry Found in Polish Lake Reveals Ancient Celtic Water Burial Ritual The museum also hypothesized that the dagger could have been cast in the ...

Rabbits and hares, along with eggs, are general symbols of spring and renewal that have become ... There is not a definitive link in recorded history between the Easter Bunny and ancient paganism. Is ...

From the ancient ... the Celtic severed head ritual to the warrior Queen Maeve’s tomb, there are countless Irish mystical sites waiting to be explored, all of which have tales of pagan Celtic ...

According to the Anti-Defamation League (which admittedly has had its faults recently), the “Black Sun” symbol was “one of a number of ancient European symbols appropriated by the Nazis.” In this case ...

The Vinlanders relished a reputation for drinking, brawling and following a racist version of Odinism, a form of ancient paganism once practiced by Vikings. “Our beliefs stem from being deprived of ...