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 ...

Santa and territorial disputes: The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia give some credibility to these countries' efforts to claim Santa as their own. After all, these are ...

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 ...