Does the Christian holiday of Easter have pagan roots? Join us as we explore the history of Eostre, a little-known Anglo-Saxon goddess, and separate historical fact from myth. US avoids shutdown ...

Pagan priests at these places would impregnate virgins on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox, calling it Easter Sunday. It was intended that the children produced of those unions would be ...

While many people associate Easter with Christian religious traditions, the holiday actually goes back further than that. It likely began as a pagan celebration in Germanic cultures to mark the ...

It is an Easter Monday ritual of pagan origin, popular in rural areas. Men go door-to-door, singing a ditty and whipping women's legs and buttocks. They are rewarded with painted eggs and shots of ...