Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

However, the most disturbing and controversial pagan Yule rituals may have been ... in a cart drawn by reindeer was transformed into Santa Claus, otherwise known as Father Christmas or Saint ...

Sending a letter to Santa can be difficult as no one can agree on where exactly Santa lives. Several countries are competing ...

of religiosity and paganism, and Levi-Strauss returns to the news underlining how the Dijon clergy, wanting to destroy Santa Claus, "did nothing other than restore to its entirety, after an ...

Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few ...

No explorer reached there until 1926, leaving Santa, if he did live there, undisturbed in his workshop. The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia give some credibility to these ...