In Portugal’s wild northern borderlands, survival and spirituality go hand in hand with the changing seasons, as they have ...

“Severance,” the Apple TV+ serial about a corporation whose employees have agreed to “sever” their workaday minds from their normal streams of consciousness, remembering nothing of office life at home ...

This included men sacrificing a goat and a dog, then whipping women as ... earliest possible origin story of Valentine's Day is the pagan holiday Lupercalia. Lupercalia was a violent, sexually ...

W hen I started drinking beer in college, almost all the beer I tried was thin adjunct lagers that had little in the way of ...

“Naked young men, drunk, would go running around Palatine Hill swatting virginal women with strips of dog fur and goat fur to make ... against the will of the pagan Emperor Claudius II.

“Naked young men, drunk, would go running around Palatine Hill swatting virginal women with strips of dog fur and goat fur to make ... against the will of the pagan Emperor Claudius II.

This involved sacrifices of goats and dogs, after which men would ... This was an attempt to eradicate pagan rituals deemed offensive by the Church. Pope Gelasius I replaced the original ritual ...

Valentine's Day is celebrated by couples around the world, but the romantic holiday has a dark and violent past ...