Each spring, Georgia’s village of Didi Chailuri revives Berikaoba, a pagan rite with masked berikas, music and wrestling, ...

The “Season of the Witch” reflects a cultural reclamation of intuition and feminine power. Explore the real history of witch hunts, the violence inflicted on women, and why modern women are embracing ...

Ryanair is set to directly connect Zadar Airport with Kaunas in Lithuania between June and September this year.

Louise McEwan Valentine’s Day did not begin with romance, flowers or sentimental gestures. Its roots lie in a pagan fertility festival marked by animal sacrifice, ritual violence and beliefs that ...

Religious traditions across cultures have often treated menstruation and childbirth as sources of ritual impurity. In Chinese Buddhism, the “Blood Bowl Scripture” condemned women to “Blood Pond Hell.” ...

The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing ...

Valentine's Day is this week, but there are other holidays to celebrate love, friendship, or yourself. Learn about Galentine's Day and Single Awareness Day.

In winter, when the days are shorter and the land seems to sleep, ancient Athenian women prepared for one of the most secret and significant events of the year: the Haloa, a festival dedicated to the ...

Perhaps no pagan deity was as reviled as Moloch, a god whose cult reportedly sacrificed children in a furnace set inside the belly of a bronze bull. Throughout antiquity, sacrifice might have been ...