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 ...

Christmas is a much-beloved holiday, celebrated by billions of people across the globe. In the U.S. alone, the Pew Center ...

A new book explores how Christmas in Czechia embraces ancient pagan and Catholic traditions despite its reputation as one of ...

Only the God of Christmas, the God whose birth as a human being took place on 25 December, can give us the true happiness we ...

Christmas is steeped in tradition, much of which has evolved over time. What are the origins of Christmas and how was it ...

But it seems that the pagan influence on some Christmas traditions ... It's been suggested that the seasonal character of "Santa Claus" or "Father Christmas" was influenced by the Norse god ...