Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christmas spider tales are many, but all center on good fortune. Liliya Krueger/Getty Last year I found a giant, and I mean ...

Unlike Nigeria and the rest of the world, Ukraine adds—what many would call—an unusual practice to their Christmas celebrations. These aren't literal spiderwebs spun by arachnids, but rather ornaments ...

A new holiday-themed opera made its Minnesota premiere in downtown St. Paul on Thursday, in a production by Skylark Opera Theatre. “The Christmas Spider” offers a sweet story about kindness, based on ...

Spiders might seem like a symbol specific to Halloween, but the eight-legged creatures actually play an important role in another holiday. You may have heard about the history of the pickle ornament, ...

The work is based on a Ukrainian folktale about a poor woodcutter and his children who face eviction on Christmas Eve. With little to eat, they resolve to have a joyous holiday, as the father reminds ...