Are there parts of Europe that remain pagan and untouched by Christianity (like in The Wicker Man)?
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You can be sure Christianity has sliced its holy sword into the deepest and darkest recesses of Europe, multiple times. The people in Europe today who are Pagan, are not people who are 'ignorant' of Christianity, they are people who have willingly rejected it.
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In the United States and many parts of the world you can have isolated areas that are virtually untouched by time. This is not true in Europe. People have been crawling over every square inch of the whole area for two thousand years. It is all accounted for and far more densely populated than most areas on earth.
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Unfortunately, no. Some pagan traditions survived within Christian context, and there are pagans today revivingthe old ways or expanding on them.
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No. The last Pagan area in Europe was Lithuania, where Paganism was eradicated in the late 1300s. The film, of course, is totally fictional. Nothing remains of Paganism in Europe besides a few folk-beliefs that have largely been incorporated into Christianity.
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No. But there has been quite a bit of backsliding.
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No unfortunately not. The christians did do a remarkable job in destroying and subverting the pagan/wiccan beliefs and rituals. Or so they think... I'm always amazed when I encounter them within the context of a christian ritual and of how the christians partaking of the ritual are ignorant as to the origins of them.
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