Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for ...

Roland Scheel, a Scandinavian scholar leading the research, explained that primary sources were written by Christian scholars well over a century after the Viking period ended. Apart from brief runic ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

How would this rather unusual claim [of a resurrected Messiah] or message have fallen on the average pagan ear? That's the most difficult question of all. This is obviously an interpretation which ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook There’s no doubt that the world has a lot of conflicting opinions about Paganism. Some believe ...

The first post-Christian generation has officially emerged in America: According to a 2018 study, a majority of the so-called Generation Z — all Americans born from 1999 to 2015 — rejects the idea of ...

For some Connecticut residents, paganism isn’t just a religion — it’s a community. WSHU’s Molly Ingram spoke with CT Mirror’s Shahrzad Rasekh to discuss her article, “Pagans in Connecticut: Stepping ...

I was skinny-dipping in the mud springs on the shores of the Dead Sea with Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi, a longhaired renegade kabbalist who runs a commune in the Judean Desert. We were enveloped by the softest, ...

From the cauldron-stirring "weird sisters" of Macbeth to the goth clique of the The Craft to the campy American Horror Story: Coven crew, witches have long been a part of the pop culture vernacular.