In the 16th-18th centuries, vessels filled with nails, thorns, hair, and other materials, were used as a form of ritual protection against witches.

Throughout history, people tried to protect spaces from evil with apotropaic marks, ritual concealments, and other charms.

A recently-discovered skeleton wearing leather boots inspires a walk through our history of wearing animal hides.

A drone flying over a field in Ireland was able to make out the outline of an ancient henge, a circular enclosure that may have had ritualistic purposes.

Old houses in Ireland often have horse skulls buried beneath the floors, but folklorists and archaeologists disagree on exactly why.

Since the nineteenth century, peat (or turf) has brought social consciousness to art. In the 1800s, Pre-Raphaelite paintings focused on the fact that the poor harvested it.

Wooden Bog Butter Barrels are possibly the most beautiful things you can find in a bog.  But why did people throw their butter into bogs?

New research scans three Viking swords and finds that, while well-made, they were not strong enough to withstand a fight.

Star Wars Epiosde VII was filmed on Skellig Michael island in Ireland.