For the pagan members the church serves, it marks winter solstice, the longest night of ... before breaking into song. "Yuletide joy, Yuletide cheer, Yuletide spirit, welcome here." ...

Honoring Saint Lucia (aka Saint Lucy), this festival incorporates pagan winter solstice traditions marked ... putting on skits, singing songs and pulling pranks. Part of the fun was trying to ...

You'll find the word in many Christmas songs, including Deck the Halls and Have ... "The season of an ancient Germanic pagan holiday centring around the winter solstice, now sometimes celebrated by ...

Today, we saw people gather across the UK to celebrate the winter solstice ... a group of friends who have written their own song about the solstice, to an eight-year-old who got lost on the ...

From the menu to the mixology, we've got you covered with all the best ideas for a sparkling winter party everyone will ...

a pagan holiday in ancient Rome, and Hogmanay, a Viking tradition still celebrated on New Year's in Scotland. Saturnalia was held annually during the winter solstice, and because it was the ...

Upon arriving in Poland, the Bui sisters began to discover the mysteries of Polish Romanticism, and were stricken with awe.

Special access is allowed to the ancient Stonehenge monument during the solstice The winter solstice sunrise ... which people tie ribbons to. This is a pagan tradition known as "wishing trees ...

Birthday celebrations were considered a pagan tradition ... Druids made extensive use of the parasitic mistletoe during winter solstice celebrations. They believed it encouraged fertility which ...

In fact, they discovered that this goes back to Szczodre Gody, a Slavic pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice ... the traditional Ukrainian song Shchedryk (known in English as "Carol of ...