Old European culture

Bride (the effigy of St Brigit, the "hag" turned "bride", winter turned spring), which is paraded around Ireland on Imbo...

A ceremonial "wheat cross" from Romania. It was made on the last day of the wheat harvest to carry the "wheat wreath" fr...

Walter Gregor’s "Folklore of the North-East of Scotland" published in 1881 gives this description of the sacrifice herdsmen perfor...

Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, hi...