Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.
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Green Country Pagans celebrate Yule amid state leaders’ criticism of beliefsPagans have many different beliefs. Rider believes in Norse traditions with an emphasis on gods like Odin and Thor. Others ...
Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few ...
In Solvang, a town known for its Christmas spirit, a pagan tree-burning ritual serves as the season's biggest highlight.
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Where does Santa Claus live? The answer is more complicated than you think | READMedieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia lend some credibility to these countries' claims of Santa as their ...
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 restore to its entirety, after an ...
No explorer reached there until 1926, leaving Santa, if he did live there, undisturbed in his workshop. The medieval and pagan mythologies in Finland and Scandinavia give some credibility to these ...
Finland’s tourism industry suggests Korvatunturi in Lapland is where Santa keeps his workshop, and the link between Santa and ...
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