Now, a new Scottish tartan is memorializing the victims of the Witchcraft Act. The black, gray, red and pink pattern was officially registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans in February ...

The circle and the stone share a dark and mysterious past, according to Irish mythology, for they have been identified as the site of pagan human sacrifice and the worship of the Sun God ...

Until just over a thousand years ago – during the Viking Age – people in Norway and the Nordic countries worshipped the pagan, Norse gods. Norwegians were among the very last in Europe to say goodbye ...

Tartan is more than patterned cloth in Scotland. Specific tartans were linked to clans and regions, and the designs carry symbolic meaning. Modern tartans are registered for organisations ...

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter ...