I have Christian friends who maintain that old tradition because Scripture doesn’t command us to celebrate Christmas, and therefore, they think that the church shouldn’t. Sometimes rather sadly, that ...

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When planning your festivities, make sure to include playing horror games this Christmas – it’s the most wonderful time of ...

Throughout the last century, the Vikings have been depicted in so many inaccurate ways. They were male-dominated, brutal, ...

Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire over the weekend to welcome in the winter solstice, and one detail ...

WHATEVER your beliefs and however you celebrate, Christmas is a deep, highly peculiar repository of old traditions drawn from ...

An estimated 8,500 people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire to celebrate the winter solstice on Sunday (December 21st) and ...

For Christmas season this year, I chose to focus on Krampus, who is sort of the antithesis of Santa Claus,” said Alexandra Cox, registrar/curator for the Clarke Museum, 240 E St., Eureka. “So, ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer had only one Christmas episode, but it went a long way to explaining a couple of big things.

Perhaps most famous for having inspired the hit Dan Brown novel, The Da Vinci Code, this picturesque Gothic chapel in a ...

According to folklore, Krampus supposedly accompanies Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of Dec. 5, on the ...

In theory this layering of the new faith onto the celebrations of the old one would make it easier for the Romans to accept ...