A cider bowl is passed around and animal bone costumes dance a jig as a crowd wishes good health to apple trees. It’s a tradition with pagan roots in the UK known as wassailing, which is ...

But the common thread in all the different forms is that you have people going from house to house in costume, reciting rhymes, in return for gifts of food and drink." Pagan and Christian elements ...

Whether it’s torchlit processions, folk dances or modernised pagan rituals, these events take ... ancient Viking festival with parades, replica costumes and - of course - feasts in community ...