Santa Claus, a figure synonymous with the winter holiday season, has an intriguing history that intertwines Christian traditions with ancient pagan roots.

Many of us are familiar with the merry aspects of winter holidays, but did you know there’s also a lot of cultures around the world have their own spine-tingling traditions that are as fascinating as they are fearsome?

I love this installation. It really creeps me out in a good way. “Nine Worlds,” a film from the multimedia installation “The Shaman’s Journey” by Thomas Ross Miller.

For your listening pleasure, and your nightmare leisure.

WE MISS YOU is a social campaign and digital art installation that deals with our relationship to earth. I love it to bits.

New Orleans is an exciting world famous voodoo hub, buzzing with culture and nightlife ... If you know just where to go!

Check out this international museum dedicated to all things tarot. They have a shop too!

Check out the Buckland Museum, founded by the man who brought Wicca to America.

Read all about one of the founding fathers of paganism - the man who coined the term “neopagan”.

In the Western world, what does the term ‘white’ actually mean?

The evolution of witchcraft into modern day Wicca. Film by Tree Carr.

I came across this on Facebook and found it on Youtube – absolutely hypnotic! Can’t stop watching.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Here’s some dark little fairy tales for you.

This is a cool video – a rendition of what life would have been like for people in the largest Viking settlement discovered as yet – The Tissø excavations. #Ancestors

Recently sick with a seasonal cold, I watched 16 hours of the extended versions of Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those movies remind me what's important in life. Then I found this song that makes me think I'm in Middle Earth.

In honour of heading into Samhain season, here’s an interesting Ancient Mysteries episode on the origin of ‘the Witch’, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. It brought up a lot of stuff for me about the witch as archetype.

The yogini is a thing.

Given that we are supposed to be living in a post-modern melting-pot world where nothing new ever happens anymore, it is always such a joy to come across people doing really cool things.