Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at his southern ...

In an evening of early 20th-century works tied to Paris, the 30-year-old Finnish maestro showed an appetite for expressive ...

Tributes poured in yesterday as the Sutton community said goodbye to Conrad Azurahm Pugsley, the man affectionately known as ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

According to Mediazona, an independent Russian news site, the region has lost over 2,500 dead in the war in Ukraine. That is ...

A lot of traditions feel like they’ve always existed, things we do automatically at weddings, funerals, holidays, and celebrations without ever stopping to ask why. But many of these rituals weren’t ...

As the days begin to get longer, thousands gather across Ireland and Scotland to celebrate the return of the light after a long, dark winter. The Gaelic festival of Imbolc is one of the earliest ...

In parts of medieval Europe, families hired sin eaters to absorb the sins of the dead. The sin eater consumed bread and drink placed on the corpse, symbolically taking the deceased’s guilt. This ...

(The Conversation) — In Tana Toraja, a mountainous region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, villagers pour massive resources into funeral rituals: lavish feasts, ornate effigies and prized water buffaloes for ...