Altars to the dead lined the basketball court at Kezar Pavilion: One was a shrine to pets, another memorialized fetuses that didn't come to term, and a third, with photographs of the first thousand ...

Members of a folk ensemble in the Belarusian village of Pahost on May 6 celebrated the feast of Yur’ya, or Yaryla, a pagan harvest god who has persisted as part of some local folk customs. The dancers ...

Dozens of people have flocked to Grove in Tasmania's Huon Valley to celebrate the inaugural Huon Valley Mid-winter Festival. Held at the Willie Smith's Apple Shed and running through to Sunday night, ...

Paganism is a little known religion and possibly one of the most misunderstood. The term conjures images of witches, creepy pentacle symbols and spells cast under the moonlight. An Erdington nail ...

A precarious transplant operation has been performed on this story of Irish village life in the 1930s, which was first produced within the no-room-to-swing-a-cat confines of the charming Watermill ...

Metropolitan Arseniy of Sliven has openly condemned the Nestinarian ritual, urging Bulgarian priests and believers not to participate in the traditional fire-dancing and prohibiting the use of ...