Honoring Saint Lucia (aka Saint Lucy), this festival incorporates pagan winter solstice traditions ... the sun is welcomed back to its summer path with ritual dances. Gift-giving to children ...

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year at the ancient Stonehenge monument on Saturday.

Now, the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21st, is upon us. It will be both the shortest day and longest night of 2024. The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to ...