Legend holds that the grotto was also a place for the worship of Cybele, the pagan goddess of the earth ... demise with seductive songs. As the sun began to rise, the music shifted to a lyrical ...

Before us, across the flat-calm Dead Sea, the sun rises over the mountains of ... in contrast to the pagan worship of the Roman emperors. But the appearance of the phrase in the scrolls indicates ...

Some local residents want to see the old St Donagh’s holy well in Donaghmede memorialised in some way. Damien Dempsey is one of them.

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

In 1790, the local parson tried to stop the custom due to its pagan associations, but he was unsuccessful, and the custom continues in that village until this day. The eating of the hare may have ...