In our society, it sometimes seems that Easter has been reduced to a celebration of chocolate bunnies, fake grass and eggs.

Now, the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21st, is upon us. It will be both the shortest day and longest night of 2024. The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to ...

For this reason, pagan and druid communities actually celebrate the first sunrise after the winter solstice. Traditionally, the winter solstice was a time when cattle were slaughtered, to save ...

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 solstice. Watch the full ...

Neo-pagan celebrations at Stonehenge gained popularity from the early C20th onwards. The summer solstice is an opportunity to celebrate the long summer days. The winter solstice reminds us that ...

In Ireland, the spring equinox delivers a phenomenon to the Loughcrew Cairns in Co Meath that is very similar to the winter solstice event at Newgrange, also in Co Meath. The Loughcrew Megalithic ...

On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. Winter solstice marks the shortest day of ...