Newsweek

Are Christmas Trees Pagan? Inside The Origins Of The Evergreen Tradition

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Christmas trees are widely associated with the Christian holiday, but ...
The New York Times

CHRISTMAS TREE'S PAGAN ORIGIN; As a Universal Christian Symbol It Is Comparatively Recent -- Lore Leads Back to Legendary Times

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America Magazine

We don’t need to be afraid of the Christmas tree’s pagan roots

My family usually bought a Christmas tree, but one year we went into the woods behind our house. We climbed over one of the old stonewalls that spiderweb throughout New England and followed the ...
Radio France Internationale

Let it burn, let it burn! Christmas tree's fiery origins

Riga (AFP) – Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But ...