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CORN DOLLYA Havest Festival Corn Dolly, over the porch at Overbury Church, Worcestershire, England. It incorporates wheat, oats and barley and is a survival of Pagan customs. Date: August 1963
Pagan Altar FontThis font at Old Radnor Church, Radnorshire, Wales, is thought to have originally been used as a Pagan altar and adapted for Christian use in the late 8th century. Date: pre 8th century
Corn Dollies at Dymock church, Gloucestershire, England. This pagan symbols are still used in modern Christian churches as thanks for a fruitful life. Date: August 1963
Hope Well DressingA Well Dressing at Hope, Derbyshire, England, which takes place on Acension Day. This ceremony is a relic of the old pagan custom of blessing wells for water. Date: 1950s
Oldest British FontThe ancient font of Old Radnor Church, Radnorshire, Wales, is probably the oldest and largest font in Britain. It was probably a Pagan altar, adapted to Chritianity. Date: 1950s
Kilchoman CrossThe Cross of Kilchoman, an ancient cross on the Isle of Islay, the Hebrides, Scotland. For many years it was turned towards the sun during prayer, but this Pagan ritual stopped. Date: 1930s
British PriestessesTwo Roman-British priestesses in their temple precinct : the one on the left wears the ancient style of costume, her companion a more Romanised gown and tunic. Date: early centuries AD
Ancient Irish PriestsA priest of the ancient Irish pagan religion, together with a heraldic bard, prepare to initiate an infant into the mysteries of their religion, watched by a symbolic dog. Date: early centuries AD
Scandinavian PagansDruid priest (drotte) and priestess (fola), of Denmark or Sweden equivalent to the Druids in Britain
Pagan man from Kulara, NigeriaA Pagan man from the Kulara region in Eastern Nigeria, wearing a splendid horned hat and a talismanic pouch around his neck containing charms
Sainte GenevieveThis remarkable picture depicts Genevieve tending her flocks in the centre of a pagan stone circle
French Druid with SickleA French druid holding a golden sickle to cut ceremonial mistletoe and armed with a longsword
Christins De BolsenaSAINT CHRISTINA DE BOLSENA Italian girl who vexed her father by throwing out his pagan images : she was saved when he threw her into a lake, but was martyred none the less
Polish King ConvertsMIECZYSLAW I, Duke of Great Poland, after several pagan wives have failed to produce an heir, weds Christian Dombrowska, has a child, so converts to Christianity
Clovis Becomes ChristianClovis, pagan king of the Franks, invokes Gods help in defeating the invading Germans. He converts to christianity after victory
Tissington Well DressingWELL DRESSING One of the six wells that are dressed at Ascension Tide. The custom originates from pagan water- or well-worship
Druids gathering the sacred mistletoe. They regarded it as a symbol of fertility, and hung it over doorways for protection against evil
Figures of gods found at Tiryns, GreeceFigures of gods made from terracotta, found at Tiryns, Mycenae, Greece
Ancient German PriestA priest prepares to sacrifice a captive
Russia / 990 / Vladimir / KievVladimir of Novgorod, dissatisfied with pagan beliefs, adopts Orthodox Christianity in 988. Pagan icons are destroyed and people christened by force
Idols of Bible Times 4Succoth Benoth - a hen - is the deity to which the heathen men of Babylon, in their blindness, bow down. (see Second Kings 17.31)
Idols of Bible Times 3Adremelech, in the form of a peacock, is the deity to which the idolatrous Sepharvites sacrifice their children, burning them in fire. (see Second Kings 17.31)
Idols of Bible Times 2Nibhaz, human but with a dogs head is one of the gods of the Avites, a people settled in Samaria by the king of Assyria. (see Second Kings 17.31)
BURNING OWD BARTLEBurning Owd Bartle, West Witton, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England, when an effigy stuffed with straw is burnt as thanksgiving to the Harvest God. Date: 24 August
Archigalle, FranceThe Archigalle is the chief priest of Cybele, in early French history. This is his ceremonial costume
Las Cases reproaches Peruvians for sacrificing childrenLas Casas reproaches Peruvians at Guacheta for sacrificing children to their gods
Pagan Laplanders sacrifice to an idol
Laplanders worshipping an idol