Yule, or Jól in Norse, was an ancient festival celebrating the winter solstice and marking the return of the longer days ...

Of all the New Year rituals doing the rounds online, eating twelve grapes under the table has become the one people truly swear by. Rooted in Spanish tradition, each grape stands for a wish for the ...

Midnight on New Year’s Eve is now often marked as a communal event, whether it is crowds waiting for fireworks at midnight, or groups in pubs and homes sharing the time-boundary together. Or perhaps ...

Family rituals are routines and traditions that honor what is very important to the family (Rothenbuhler, 1998). Rituals include family traditions, such as the specific ways we celebrate holidays, ...

Back when I taught Irish language classes, I would challenge my students to find a character from Irish history or mythology and invite them to speak cúpla focal - a few words in Irish about their ...

This Sol del Valle column has been translated for English readers. Every late October, when the cold begins to bite and the leaves fall like tiny symbols of passing time, the American continent ...

Halloween's origins trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of summer for the Celts. The Celts believed the boundary between the living and the dead blurred on the ...

From porch skeletons to pumpkin patches and piles of hard-earned candy, Halloween is one of America’s most widely celebrated holidays. Once dismissed by some religious groups as too pagan, it’s now ...

The modern traditions of Halloween include costumes, kids trick-or-treating, parties as well as carved and decorated pumpkins. But the holiday has some ancient roots that date back to pagan traditions ...