Strange phenomena have always drawn crowds and history is replete with miracles that have been witnessed by many people

Discover wildly different courting customs and the origin of international wedding traditions

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

A bunch of flowers can speak volumes. Different blooms and colours represent messages of affection, friendship, support, luck and even proposal. Most cultures and religions have a history of using flo

Want to invite more love into your life this Valentine’s Day? Folklore expert Icy Sedgwick reveals some of the fascinating and funny love rituals our forebears used to attract – and keep – a partner. Which will you try?

Rue des Colonels Renard, near the Arc de Triomphe in the 17th arrondissement, is situated in a well-heeled part of Paris, featuring fashionable apartments at vertigo-inducing rents. In the late 1930s