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In the sage smudging purification ritual, ancient wisdom offers simple but powerful therapy for person, office and home to banish pervasive and unhealthy negative energy.

The Druids were well respected elders in ancient Celtic society, who fascinate even today, but they left very few written records.

Yew trees are among today's oldest living things. They feature strongly in history, legend and the lives of saints and heroes.

Ancient cultures, so many of them dependent upon agriculture, celebrated major festivals on or around the day of the Winter Solstice.

The origin of the Pagan or Shamanic Celtic Druids was documented through the years. It's been written they mysteriously disappeared. Or did they?

Halloween lore and religious persecution have cast a long shadow over feline history, and superstitions surrounding black cats persist to this day.

Every year, families go on autopilot as they perform Christmas traditions without knowing why. Here is the history behind some of the most beloved yuletide traditions.

Origins of March 17th celebration began with a teen-ager, pirates, slavery and a lifelong devotion to God

Celebrants offer thanks in this festival also called Wine Harvest, Feast of Avalon, Equinozio de Autunno, Cornucopia, Winter Finding and Alben Elfred.

It's a Sabbat of fertility and renewal, a joyful celebration on May First with dancing, feasting and the traditional Maypole.

Wreaths, garlands, swags, and trees of evergreen have ancient roots in celebrating the winter holidays but are a relatively recent addition to the American Christmas.

Elegant crafts, made from household items or recyclables, are easily and quickly created. Yule is the winter solstice, shortest day of the year celebrated on 12/21/09.

Wreaths, featured at Sabbats celebrating seasons' change, represent the year's cycle. Decorate ready made wreaths or original creations with Yule symbols.

It's a time to get ready for spring's arrival. Light is noticeably overpowering darkness. Celebrate with customs of the day while the groundhog's prediction is made.

Mistletoe is associated with Christmas and kissing, but the natural history of this familiar group of parasitic plants is as interesting as the tradition and folklore.

Before Christmas there was Yule, the original winter festival that started many festive traditions, from Yule logs to holly and Twelfth Night.

While symbolic colors are unchanged, hearth's and candle's flames and cloth costumes for fire and fur are among modern substitutes. Enjoy recipes for traditional fare.

This Sabbat is also called Feast of the Dead, Feast of Apples, November Eve, All Hallows Eve, La Samon and Hallows. Some celebrate it as the beginning of the New Year.

Hallowe'en is celebrated by giving thanks and honoring the dead. Some Celts had a three day celebration, believing Samhain was the 'tween time between summer and winter.

Daylight and night are equal on the second harvest festival as crops are reaped and stored. The day's equality and balance are honored. Learn to make a Mabon corn wheel.

What better way to celebrate the neglected holiday than to combine traditions and foods of the Solar Festivals? Decorate the house in Autumn finery; enjoy the recipes!

Feast of Lights or Torches or the Virgin or Waxing Light, Festival of the Ewe's Milk or Lights, Imbolgc Brigantia, Lupercus, Candlelaria, Snowdrop Festival....

Because milk is flowing, one of this festival's featured foods is dairy products. Celebrate! Welcome approaching spring with Imbolc's foods in recipes provided.

The ripening and reaping of grains were cause for great festivities. There were ceremonies and a feast. Celebrate the festival and enjoy recipes for the banquet.

Both Pagans and Christians celebrate the first harvest according to individual spiritual beliefs. It is a time of joy and to give thanks for abundance.

This Sabbat is also known as Feast of Avalon, Wine Harvest, Cornucopia, Alben Elfred, Winter Finding and Equinozio de Autunno. Enjoy sample feast recipes!

Most city and suburban Pagans usually don't have access to fields and logs. Substitute! Feast on traditional foods! Magick prevails on the Winter Solstice....

There are practitioners of the Olde Religion who are also Christian. Both spiritual paths celebrate spring's holidays with seasonal flowers and foods.

This Greater Sabbat, sometimes mistakenly called Roodmas, a non-Pagan holiday, features flowers, the Maypole and its own special foods. Celebrate and enjoy the recipes.

Midsummer, called Litha by Wiccans and Alban Hefin by Druids, celebrates Earth's abundance. The altar is decorated for the Sabbat. Its feast is vegetables and fruits.

Mistletoe, one of the most magickal and sacred plants of Paganism, symbolizes life and fertility and protects against poison. It was considered an aphrodisiac.

Hallowe'en Pumpkins, a decoration, has roots in this Fire or Solar Festival, tradition; Jack-O-Lanterns' are in Irish lore. Costumes originated in Samhain practice.

Pagan holidays celebrate changing seasons and the cycle of life. Greater Sabbats are Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh; Lesser Sabbats, solstices and equinoxes.

Costumed children "trick or treat." Jack-O-Lanterns, fall fruit and flowers decorate homes. Tales of ghosts and other supernatural "beasties" are told.

Arthurian legend is that Merlin magically constructed the henge. Celtic Druids didn't build it, but they're closely associated with these Neolithic stone structures.

Sabbat, a fête of fertility and joy, features dancing, merriment and the feast. Delight in the season of growth and dine on recipes for traditional foods.

Day of joy and rebirth.... Solar festival celebrated by Yule log's fire.... Holly, ivy, evergreens and mistletoe adorn windows, doors, rooms and halls.... Rejoice! Merry