Forget Santa: Icelandic children are visited at Christmas by 13 mischievous trolls or “Yule Lads”, the offspring of a murderous ogress called Grýla. Every year, children leave shoes in their ...
United States on December 26, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Cokun/Anadolu via Getty Images) A full moon has not occurred on Christmas Day for North Americans since 2015 and won't again until 2034 ...
Across Europe, from mid-November through Christmas Eve, cities large and small are transformed from everyday life into enchanting, fairy tale-like villages. Locals and tourists pour into hundreds ...
Nations across Europe have cracked down on Christmas lights this winter to save energy as Russia restricts gas flows to the continent. It's one of the ways that countries including Germany ...