The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

Children celebrating Easter, with their Easter Bunnies and Easter eggs. Sanja Radin/Collection E+ via Getty Images ...

The idea that the witches of winter should be banished at Easter is a common European ... named after the goddess Eostre. He wrote that a pagan festival of spring in the name of the goddess had become ...

On the winter solstice, visitors traditionally enter the towering, mysterious stone circle for a sunrise ceremony run by local pagan and druid groups. Winter solstice marks the shortest day of ...