For example, several rituals associated with Christmas — dinner feasts, gift-giving, and decorative wreaths — are rooted in pagan winter solstice rituals. It may surprise you that the earliest ...

In 2023, the winter solstice takes place on Friday 22 December ... Girls dress up in white robes and wear wreaths of candles on their heads to honour St Lucia (also known as St Lucy) who was ...

The UK’s most famous site for solstice celebrations is Stonehenge. On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local ...

FLORIDA — Winter weather isn’t bound by the calendar, but by what’s going on outside. Meteorologists consider Dec. 1 the start of winter. But the “official” start of the season in ...