The head of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church said in remarks published late on Tuesday that "weirdos" were trying to spread ...

For the Vikings, Germanic tribes, and other pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, this celebration, known as Yule, was originally meant to honor the winter solstice. The Yule or Yuletide ...

A gold and silver hoard near Hezingen reveals pagan rituals amid rising Christian influence in medieval Europe.

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure.

Watching a groundhog emerge from a cozy burrow in early February feels quintessentially American, but the tradition of turning to animals to predict the spring comes from pre-Christian pagan ...

(Fittingly, storks return to Europe from Africa about 9 months after the summer solstice.) After the founding of the Polish state and the simultaneous introduction of Christianity to its territory in ...

Historian Bettany Hughes uses the latest scholarship to examine the 2nd century AD, as pagan Europe began to embrace Christianity and the role of women in worship changed forever ...

comparative religion and Indo-European studies, as well as searching for surviving relics of the ancient pagan religion still present in the tales, legends, and customs of the Slavic folk. Their ...

However, the Pagan Lady was buried in a Christian cemetery with this fine necklace. The beads came from far and wide - Britain and Europe - and some were 300 years old when the Pagan Lady wore the ...