Many traditions that tie Christmas back to the earlier “pagan” European religions it co-opted still exist. Christmas carols, for example, started out as a pagan winter ceremony called ...

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

Charles Brammall rabbits on about Easter. I didn’t grow up going to church on Good Friday- it wasn’t part of my ...