A mum of four who thanks her teenage “witchcraft rituals” for helping her find love, now enjoys a pagan Christmas with her family – complete with a flaming Yule log that burns for 12 days.

In another article from HowStuffWorks.com, the first mention of a date for Christmas wasn’t until over 1,800 years ago and noted that Christmas wasn’t celebrated until about 250-300 C.E.

In another article from HowStuffWorks.com, the first mention of a date for Christmas wasn’t until over 1,800 years ago and noted that Christmas wasn’t celebrated until about 250-300 C.E.

Beneath your Christmas trees, egg nog, and fat jolly guys in red suits lie the roots of one of the year’s more important Pagan festivals. Winter Solstice, The Long Night, or Yule (from the Norse ...

La Befana, the Italian Epiphany witch. Painting by James Lewicki, from “The Golden Book of Christmas Tales” 1956 Another creature who suddenly has become ubiquitous at Christmastime: Swedish ...

Anne, 55, the Pagan Federation’s West Anglia co-ordinator, and a self-proclaimed witch, calculates there are probably 2-3,000 practising Pagans in the Cambridgeshire area. “Numbers are on the ...