If people wish you a “serendipitous solstice” or the like tomorrow, it’s because they’re godless Earth-worshiping pagan soldiers of the War Against Christmas. Or so I gather from reading various right ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – traditions. With its goblins, goosebumps and rituals – from bobbing for ...

Here's how you can really celebrate the Halloween (or Samhain) holiday this year.

Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg Williams, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this: "Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. . . . Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of ...

Despite the growing number of covens and magickal circles, there is still truth in the sociologist Émile Durkheim's famous 1912 statement that "there is no Church of magic." This is due partly to the ...

“As you chant, I want you to put your hands on your womb. This is the center of your power!” It was dusk, and I was standing in a circle of two hundred women, from 6 to 60-something, in a forest ...

(RNS) Young adults born to pagan parents are a lot like their peers of all faiths: They do spirituality their own way and many don’t do it at all. (RNS) Oh, the kids. They don’t know the history. They ...

Farmers skinned cats about 1,000 years ago in Spain, possibly for the medieval cat-fur industry or a "magical" pagan ritual, a new study finds. Scientists found evidence of the skinning at the ...

There is often a misunderstanding about what Pagan, Wiccan, and nature- based ceremonies are all about. Occasionally I have requests to include Pagan rituals in weddings and I’m happy to do so. Now, I ...

Paganism was recently declared an official religion in England. July 18, 2011— -- Sgt. Simon Wood of New Forest, England, is a mild-mannered, respected police officer, a military veteran who has ...