Ancient Traditions And Customs Archive
Ancient Traditions And Customs
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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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When Christmas approaches, children wait impatiently for Santa Claus to bring them gifts. Kids are taught misbehaving children receive coal on the night
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Did you know that Nordic people celebrated a festival similar to Christmas long before they became Christian? Norse Yule was not the same
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many ancient cultures across the world had a common belief in someone that protects the home, looking after the entire household and the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It’s difficult to imagine a Christmas celebration without a beautifully decorated Christmas tree at home. Just in the United States alone, more than
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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
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Advent is a Christian season celebration that begins on the first on the Sunday nearest November 30, the feast day of St. Andrew the
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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. It
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Ancient History Facts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - We use to associate martial arts mainly with the Far East, China - Kung Fu, and Japan - Karate, but the truth is
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On June 21, many people around the world celebrate the summer solstice. It’s an ancient tradition that is still alive. The festivals are often
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you are open-minded about unorthodox healing methods then the practices of the Whisperers should interest you. The Whisperers are said to possess
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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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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Not so long ago a person could get employment as a sin eater and make some money on this unusual profession. As the
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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 for a very long time in
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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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Christmas Traditions
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Shortly before Christmas you can see this little fellow everywhere in Scandinavia. He appears on Christmas cards, in shops, on the Christmas tree,
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Christmas Traditions
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Kallikantzaroi are naughty and sometimes evil underground goblins who emerge during the 12 days of Christmas and then disappear into the earth
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient legends of Perchta (also known as Berchta or Berta) are native to Austria, especially Salzburg, and the Alpine regions of Switzerland, and
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) is originally a character from the tradition of the East Slavs including the Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian people. In
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Christmas Traditions
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In Icelandic mythology, Gryla (Grýla) is a giantess who lives in the mountains of Iceland. She is mentioned in Snorre Sturluson's Prose Edda,
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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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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Bread has been known for millennia though its true history from the beginning is lost in time. It is the basic food of
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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. Like
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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 by a number of
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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 shake hands with others, we hardly think about how, where, and why this custom was born. In most
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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, they don’t
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - July 15th is the feast day of St. Swithin, an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester who died in 862 A.D. His name is associated
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
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 basic and most popular beauty tool of all time. Millennia ago, it covered up the imperfections
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