From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

and this is where the Christians become more noticeable to their pagan neighbors. They don't go to the temples. On important feast days when it would be customary to offer sacrifices on behalf of ...

Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of ...

In court documents released last year, the then-50-year-old local man maintained his innocence of the 2017 killings and instead claimed that the murders were carried out by a pagan cult hijacked ...

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween ... while crops and animals were offered as ritual sacrifices to be burned. Fun fact: the word “bonfire” comes ...

Richard Allen, charged with the 2017 murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, claims the girls were actually murdered by believers of the pagan religion Defense attorneys for the man ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history. Now archaeologists are trying to ...

While many anime series feature the trope of one character making some sort of grand sacrifice, there are some in the medium that stand out as the greatest anime sacrifices of all time ...

121.2 x 166.4 cm. (47.7 x 65.5 in.) ...

Costumes, bonfires, and sacrifices to deities were part of their ... the Roman Catholic Church made many attempts to supplant various pagan celebrations with Christian ones. All Saints’ Day ...

CINCINNATI -- Right-hander Emilio Pagán exercised his $8 million option for 2025 on Saturday, remaining with the Cincinnati Reds rather than becoming a free agent. Pagán, 33, was 4-5 with a 4.50 ...