@civilwarbore oh by the way, I have a book to recommend. It's hard to find and expensive but if you can procure a copy...oh man.
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@civilwarbore It's called Pagan Survivals, Superstitions and Popular Cultures by Bernadette Filotas.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@civilwarbore she compiled all the sources from the early medieval period on pagan rituals and stuff post-Christian conversion.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AdmiralHip it's all fairly fascinating, esp when compared to some of the wilder New Age claims.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@civilwarbore totally. also what's interesting was the sort of cultural stuff. like the regular folk just continued on doing the same.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@civilwarbore they thought they were Christian, but their popular culture pre-Christianity lingered.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@civilwarbore the higher ups in the Church were not pleased with regular ppl calling days of the week after pagan gods.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AdmiralHip Yes! Francis Pryor makes the point in Britain BC that for folks in the countryside, Roman invasion didn't disrupt much.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@civilwarbore true, although they had been evangelized. Angles and Saxons changed that, Britain went pagan again for a few hundred years.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AdmiralHip I think rural areas tended to stay pagan also bc Christianity is a very urban religion. When forced, some rituals got folded+1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@civilwarbore yes, totally. OH ALSO the book talks about how some parish priests were just as bad as the laypeople
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore and they took part in pagan stuff too.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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