Members of a folk ensemble in the Belarusian village of Pahost on May 6 celebrated the feast of Yur’ya, or Yaryla, a pagan harvest god who has persisted as part of some local folk customs. The dancers ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. May day in the Southern hemisphere mark Samhaine for wiccans and witches; one of the eight great ...

When local Wiccans gather this Halloween, they won’t be casting spells to lift the veil between worlds. Instead, they’ll be celebrating Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season ...

Belarusian women take part in an annual ritual for the pagan god Yurya, which they believe will protect their current and future harvests.

(RNS) — For days ahead of the official holiday on Monday (Aug. 1), many modern pagans around the world have already been celebrating Lúnasa, the first of three harvest holidays on the modern pagan ...

Karen Silva and Sharon L’Heureux, both of Meriden, are proud to count themselves among the nation’s witches. The women are both priestesses of Wicca, a federally recognized neo-Pagan religion — and ...

For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, forms of paganism reigned over human spirituality. But after the rise of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the word "pagan" became synonymous with "evil." Modern ...

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