it speaks of history and tradition, of religiosity and paganism, and Levi-Strauss returns to the news underlining how the Dijon clergy, wanting to destroy Santa Claus, "did nothing other than ...

Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

Medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia lend some credibility to these countries' claims of Santa as their ...

Santa Claus is a name derived from Sinterklaas or Saint Nicholas. Along with pagan elves and gnomes, another element in the long and very complex history of Santa is the Christian bishop St ...