Ancient Traditions And Customs Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Wild Hunt is a well-known folklore story in Northern Europe. It is said that seeing the Wild Hunt is dangerous because it
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It may sound somewhat surprising, but the celebration of Christmas, Easter, Midsummer, and Saint's Day was forbidden in Scotland for a very long
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Christmas Traditions
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you ever visit Sweden during Christmas, make sure to go to the city of Gävle, where you can see a colossal goat
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Christmas Traditions
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It’s been a hard and sad year for many, but it doesn’t mean we should break with old traditions, and nothing can stop the
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Christmas Traditions
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Advent is a Christian season celebration that begins on a Sunday and includes three other Sundays leading up to Christmas. The candles in the Advent
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Are you going to celebrate Halloween on October 31? If so, you may already know it originated with the ancient Celtic festival of
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When fall approaches, we remember darker and colder days are heading our way. Ancient people honored the changing of seasons through several festivals. One
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Every year on June 21, a global community comes together to celebrate the summer solstice. These vibrant and enchanting festivals, deeply rooted in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological investigations in the ancient Maya city of Yaxnohcah, conducted by scholars from the University of Cincinnati have uncovered compelling evidence of ceremonial rituals
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AncientPages.com - We're all familiar with the jolly, white-haired and bearded overweight man who sneaks down chimneys on Christmas Eve delivering presents to children. But where did this
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AncientPages.com - On December 18, 1941, it was forbidden to use the Norwegian flag and its colours in a way that offended national sentiment. The ban was issued by
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bread has been known for millennia though its authentic history is lost in time. It is the primary food of man in almost
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AncientPages.com - As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us
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AncientPages.com - On Jan. 22, 2023, more than a billion people globally will welcome the Year of the Rabbit – or the Year of Cat, depending on which
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On October 31, many of us celebrate Halloween, a tradition that is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Once, a long time ago, there was a very precious herb in the ancient city of Cyrene, a Greek city on the North African
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you have the patience and are not determined to compete with some of the world’s most talented artists, painting can be a
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Like many other ancient cultures, people in Japan have long believed dreams can foretell the future. For example, ancient Egyptians believed certain signs
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures worldwide believed in someone protecting the home and looking after the entire household and the family members. In some ancient
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We used to associate martial arts mainly with the Far East, China - Kung Fu, and Japan - Karate, but the truth is
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you are open-minded about unorthodox healing methods, then the Whisperers' practices should interest you. The Whisperers are said to possess a magical
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In some Native American cultures, a typical dreamcatcher was a handmade hanging ornament consisting of a woven net in a circle and certain
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The rubber ball game is one of the most fundamental and iconic features of ancient Mesoamerica, a pre-Columbian cultural region encompassing Guatemala, Belize,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Not so long ago, a person could get employment as a sin eater and make some money in this unusual profession. As the
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Christmas Traditions
AncientPages.com - Our fascination with ghostly tales around Christmas time goes back thousands of years and is rooted in ancient celebrations of the winter solstice. In the depths
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – It’s always nice to see that ancient traditions and customs are still alive in our modern society, but sometimes festivals can go too
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AncientPages.com - Day of the Dead might sound like a solemn affair, but Mexico’s famous holiday is actually a lively commemoration of the departed. The nationwide festivities, which include a massive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The best and most straightforward way to explain Utiseta is to say it's the Norse version of the Native American vision quest. A völva
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Native Americans are famous for their long hair and there is a reason why they let it grow. To Native Americans, hair is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We are so used to shaking hands with others that we hardly think about how, where, and why this custom was born. In
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In many Asian countries, people celebrate the Hungry Ghost festival in August. It’s an ancient tradition and a time when people make offerings
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you happen to be in Zambia, Africa the last weekend in August you may want to experience the traditional Likumbi Lya Mize
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Amish people in Pennsylvania are often misunderstood because of their somewhat unusual avoidance custom. The Amish avoid certain modern technologies, don’t drive
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Jeramy Neugin - AncientPages.com - The Cherokee used the spirits of their ancestors as talismans of protection against harm. After the home was smoked, dirt from the family
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient village of Zalipie, located not far from Krakow in Poland is probably the most colorful village in Europe. The ancient tradition
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Women have always highly regarded lipstick as the primary and most popular beauty tool of all time. Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last active
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - According to the opinion of the majority of experts on the subject, the homeland of tea is China. A painting of ancient Chinese
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Looking through the eyes of a foreigner, the Hina Matsuri festival can be quite an extraordinary sight. Suddenly you see one thousand beautiful dolls
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hanging rope bridges (or the so-called suspension rope bridges) were built by the Inca over canyons, rivers, and ravines. They linked the Inca Empire,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Boontling language was invented sometime in the 1800s, but it’s unclear by whom. Some think parents made the language so they could talk
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many different kinds of winter solstice celebrations across the world. The Hopi Indians of Northern Arizona celebrate Soyal and welcome the Kachinas,
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