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

Before there was Christmas, there was the Viking winter solstice celebration known as Yule. Many raucous traditions from this pagan holiday evolved into the Christmas rituals we still observe today.

Writing to Santa can be difficult as no one can agree on where he lives, though several countries claim him as a citizen ...

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 ...

Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few ...