The solstice - which falls on 21 December - is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the ...

Greek Christmas food finds its roots in many ancient myths with pomegranates, breads, honey sweets, and olive oil as its main ...

Ancient rituals, religious symbolism and royal fashion combined to turn an evergreen into Christmas’s most enduring symbol.

The Christmas tree is a longstanding tradition that goes back many centuries. Christmas trees are known to have been popular ...

"Yuletide," a term in Old English used by Norsemen, is a 12-day-long feast celebrating warmth, merriment and fellowship.

It is believed that in the 4th century, Pagans admired evergreen trees because they symbolised life and endurance during the ...

Scratch the surface of any holiday tradition and you'll find it's less about timeless ritual and more about historical ...

English Heritage has acknowledged promoting a "nonsense" theory regarding the origins of Christmas Day celebrations. The ...

There’s a transcendent story — a philosophical story, a cosmic story, a moral story — in Christmas that we sometimes fail to ...

It happens almost every year that propagandists try to steal Christmas from Christ and the Church. A couple of days ago, it ...

The word Christmas is formed by two words... Christ plus Mass, meaning a religious service in commemoration of the birth of Christ.

According to folklore, Krampus supposedly accompanies Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of Dec. 5, on the ...