"festival" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is usually said to have originated as a pagan festival celebrating the arrival of summer, fertility, or both.
- There have been claims that it is a pagan festival, however, these claims are unfounded.
- She told herself she was only satisfying her curiosity regarding the debauchery of a pagan festival.
- The fiestas intertwine some of the great pagan festivals with Catholic ritual and tradition.
- "What's Christmas anyway, but a pagan festival stolen by the Church for its own purposes?"
- It is also the eve of a pagan Celtic festival of the dead, a time when spirits were thought to walk the earth.
- Christmas was condemned as a pagan festival.
- During a pagan festival, they refused to sell their wares for use in these celebrations.
- But we don't have evidence of Christians adopting pagan festivals in the third century, at which point dates for Christmas were established.
- The Talmud states that this festival was later turned into a pagan festival.
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