“As you chant, I want you to put your hands on your womb. This is the center of your power!” It was dusk, and I was standing in a circle of two hundred women, from 6 to 60-something, in a forest ...

Many of the Easter traditions Christians celebrate today date back to the early days of Christianity. Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images Easter brings together an unlikely cadre of ...

Midsommar, or Midsummer, is the opening of the traditional summer holiday season, during which Swedes abandon the cities for five weeks in nature, enabled by 25 days of legally mandated paid leave.

Christiana Key said she's getting signs from the other side. Her father died not long ago, but she knows his music taste well, and he seems to be the one DJing in the car or Spotify radio. Then ...

Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg Williams, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this: "Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. . . . Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of ...

Today, we know Valentine’s Day for sweetness and chocolate and doilies and grand romantic gestures. But a millennium before our time, the holiday that would become Valentine’s Day saw ancient Romans ...

The practice of giving gifts in mid-February dates back to pagan fertility rituals, with pairs of gloves being the go-to gift ...

Europe’s most intriguing festivals aren’t always the ones on postcards or Instagram feeds. As winter melts into spring, you’ll find age-old celebrations steeped in local folklore, unique rituals and ...