The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

For many Indigenous worldviews, death is understood as a return to land, ancestry, and collective continuity. The body is not ...

The mother and elder sister carried out the ritual at home, believing they were saving Xie. During the process, they pressed ...

A Shenzhen court gave Li and her elder daughter suspended jail terms for negligent homicide after an exorcism ritual led to ...

Peruvian shamans have foreseen a serious illness for US President Donald Trump in 2026 during a traditional ritual on a Lima ...

A court in China sentenced a woman named Li to three years in prison after the death of her younger daughter during an ...

Magh Mela is a 45-day-long festival that begins on Paush Purnima and ends on Mahashivratri. It is this mela that turns into ...

The torch ritual has drawn mixed reactions, with some community leaders and politicians defending it as part of cultural heritage, while others—including members of the Tiriki community—have rejected ...

A Bronx man who tortured his cat to death as part of an occult ritual boasted of the killing online and threatened to attack animal lovers outraged by the sickening abuse, court documents show. “Yeah, ...