Many modern Wiccans and pagans celebrate Ostara, a holiday rooted in a goddess with a nebulous history.

Claims that Easter was inspired by a pagan goddess are widespread but often misunderstood. The idea comes from a single medieval source mentioning a goddess named Eostre. There is no archaeological ...

Topekan Mary Lou Schmidt has made no secret during the years that she is a Pagan and a follower of the goddess Isis. For being so public about her beliefs, Schmidt has taken her share of heat from ...

Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg Williams, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this: "Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. . . . Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of ...

Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition popularised by Gerald Brosseau Gardner. It emphasises spells and rituals and honours a Triple Goddess and a Horned God. Wicca is a Pagan Witchcraft tradition.

Easter arrives this year on Sunday, April 17, 2022, but if you think Easter started as a Christian holiday, think again. The history and origins of how Easter began aren't rooted in what Christians ...

The shock ubiquity of the terror group ISIS with its sudden takeover of swathes of Iraq has caused a bit of a branding problem. Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of ...

The basic problem that faces those approaching Mary from outside the Catholic tradition is the seeming disproportion between what Scripture tells us about Mary and the enormous amount of space she ...