Did you know you can predict the weather with an onion? The Onion Calendar is a time-honored German folk method...

The Christmas gnome that exploded in popularity through the 2010s is not a marketing invention. It traces directly to Scandinavian...

If you were born in December, you get to pick from three very different stones: a sky-blue desert classic, a...

If you were born in November, you get two birthstones to claim: topaz, the warm-hearted friendship stone with centuries of...

If your birthday lands in October, you get two birthstones. Opal has been October's gem for centuries, prized for the...

The persimmon forecast is one of the oldest weather-prediction methods in American folklore. According to Appalachian and Ozark tradition, you...

A shooting star is a meteoroid (typically a sand-grain to pea-sized piece of rock) burning up in Earth's atmosphere at...

Sapphire is September's birthstone, and it has carried symbolic weight for thousands of years. It was worn by clergy, set...

August's birthstone is peridot, the light olive-green gem the ancient Egyptians called the "gem of the sun." Two other stones...

July's birthstone is the ruby, and no other gem carries quite the same weight of story. Its English name comes...