But such misrepresentation of the North is unfair. Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan ...

Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan Celtic roots as well as a seminal relationship ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Halloween has been a global festival celebrated for centuries but many don’t realize that its roots lie in a pagan festival ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's ... Anthropologist and pagan Lyn Baylis tells the BBC: "Fire rituals to bring light into the darkness ...

We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

Hugh Grant's Heretic movie features Mr Reed making controversial claims about the origins of Jesus Christ, which historically speaking turn out to be total nonsense. Warning spoilers for the new ...

WHILE THERE HAS BEEN a surge of interest in witchcraft from American women, American men seem to have started heading back to the pews.

The Halloween traditions that we celebrate today, in America, originate from the Celtic pagan festival called “Samhain.“ The phrase is from ancient ... the Roman goddess of fruit and trees.

But for members of the minority religion of Wicca and witchcraft, part of contemporary paganism, Halloween has ... For them, the Earth is the goddess or her body. Wiccans often sit under a ...