From the steppes of central asia

The story of some of the last peoples in Europe to embrace Christianity

Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

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