Many miners in the 19th century both in the United Kingdom and America but not only, believed in the existence...
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Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is a public holiday in some countries. But why we observe...
Every Easter, children in several part of our planet rush around their homes and gardens searching for chocolate eggs and,...
In Rome and in Greece, in this period, the Pleiades were remembered, and predictions were made on the illnesses of...
Today, March 31, in ancient Rome, the foundation of Luna's temple, the moon goddess, on the Aventine Hill, was remembered....
Easter is the most important feast day in the Christian calendar. Regularly observed from the earliest days of the Church,...
Like all states, also Maine has it’s weird and paranormal events throughout history. When the Spaniards came into the Southwest...
As we already know, the full Moon names come from a number of places, including Native American, Colonial American, but...
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
The legend of the Irish Leprechaun is a well-known one: little wee well-dressed men, often angry or drunk (or both)...
The Bridgewater Triangle is an infamous area within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States, that is known for its odd...
The county of Norfolk, England, is home of the world’s greatest concentration of medieval churches, with over 650 scattered in...
On March 17 the Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, ribald and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on...
Bacchus was a Roman agricultural god who was associated with the harvest, particularly that of grapevines. The son of Jupiter...
Julius Caesar was warned by a seer that harm would befall him before the end of the Ides of March,...
Spring gets nearer, and a symbol of the season is the Pussy Willow. Salix discolor is its botanical name, and...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
In Ireland and Wales, the annual Feast of Rhiannon is celebrated by some still today in honor of the Celtic/Welsh...
Leshy, literally He-of-the-forest is a tutelary deity of the forests in Slavic mythology. He was depicted a tall, elderly man...
Of Norse origin, Ceadda was a deity connected to sacred, healing and underground waters and therefore also to springs and...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
Every full moon has at least one nickname, dating back to the days when Native American tribes and Colonial Americans...
The Anthesteria, in Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus, "dead and reborn"....
According to a Russian legend, hidden beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region north-east of Moscow,...
Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is...
The Caristia, also called Cara Cognatio, was one of several days in February that Ancient Romans honored family or ancestors....
Ajd literally means "heaten " in Slovenian, but it also denotes a sort of supernatural quality. This rock formation, known...
Lupercalia was one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays, one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from...
In the Victorian era, and also into the 20th century, lovers exchanged elaborate lace-trimmed cards on Valentine’s Day, expressing their...
In history there were multiple St. Valentines (including decapitated ones) but, apparently, was a medieval poet who first established the...