Around 1,000 years ago, pagans living near the Baltic Sea imported horses from their newly Christian northern neighbors and then subjected the animals to gruesome public sacrifice, a new study finds.

Pagans in northern Europe's Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries during the late medieval period to sacrifice in funeral rituals, a study has revealed. The research ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

A cathedral has defended its decision to screen two films which include a graphic sex scene, full female nudity and a Pagan sacrifice. Some Christians believe that showing horror film The Wicker ...

In fact, he impels Jews to take part in pagan sacrifices and eat non-kosher food. In the Temple, Antiochus sets up an idol of Zeus, the "abomination of desolation" (1:54). Mattathias, a zealous ...

Blood sacrifices involving pigs, sheep or geese were practiced in Ireland well into living memory on Martinmas ...