Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Christmas trees did begin as a pagan tradition as early as the fourth century C.E., according to ABC News. European pagans were largely responsible for dressing their homes with the branches of ...

Most historians have agreed that December 25th was long a pagan festival before the early ... a fascinating post by Judith Weingarten (Whose Christmas Is It, Anyway?), it appears it was the ...

We can still see the pagan origins of Christmas in many holiday traditions, including mistletoe, which symbolized fertility to pre-Christians and new life even in the depths of winter. Another ...

Brian McClinton (DebateNI, December 18) points out that Christmas was originally the Roman pagan festival of Saturnalia, which was "hijacked" by the early Christians. Even the modern tradition of ...

It's often claimed that many of today's Christmas traditions derive from the pre-Christian observances of pagan cults suppressed by Roman authorities. The story goes that, after Christianity ...