(SOUNDBITE) (French) PRESIDENT OF NORD FANTASTIQUE ASSOCIATION AND HOBBYIST OF MYSTIC PLACES, BERTRAND BOSIO, SAYING: "Here we're in front of a ritual tree, where people ask for healing. It's a tree ...

On the longest night of the year, Bay Area pagans will hold vigil for the rebirth of the sun. They don't, of course, think the sun won't return, but that isn't going to stop them from entreating it to ...

The vernal equinox has long been regarded as the most earthy of the solar festivals, and McCoy's guide to the pagan celebration of Ostara/Eostre ably instructs readers in the holiday's historical ...

HASNON, France, Dec 6 (Reuters) - It is a ritual steeped in pagan mystery, updated for the coronavirus age. Sick people in northern France occasionally leave garments in healing trees or "arbres à ...

Asher Wingard sauntered toward a Japanese hill cherry tree in the Arnold Arboretum, set their cane aside and knelt to place both hands on the grass. Here at the foot of the tree, Wingard, 34, ...