{"id":13099,"date":"2022-11-29T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:27:59","slug":"uk-pagans-more-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13099","title":{"rendered":"UK Pagans “More Established”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge 2019. Photo: Martin Dalton\/Rex\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n

The Guardian<\/em> newspaper (UK) cherry-picks a few things from the 2021 England and Wales census, including a rise in the number of self-identified Pagans.<\/a><\/p>\n

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2) Pagans and wiccans are becoming more established<\/h2>\n

More established [than self-identified shamans] are pagans [sic<\/em>] ,<\/em> who number 74,000 people (up from 57,000 in 2011) and who gather most in Ceredigion, Cornwall<\/a> and Somerset, and wiccans [sic], who number 13,000. Wicca is sometimes described as a witchcraft tradition whose roots lie in pre-Christian religious traditions, folklore, folk witchcraft and ritual magic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don’t get a swollen head, unless you speak Romanian (see number 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian newspaper (UK) cherry-picks a few things from the 2021 England and Wales census, including a rise in the number of self-identified Pagans. 2) Pagans and wiccans are becoming more established More established [than self-identified shamans] are pagans [sic] , who number 74,000 people (up from 57,000 in 2011) and who gather most in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[432,21,275,5,162,6],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-census","tag-england","tag-new-religious-movements","tag-paganism","tag-wales","tag-wicca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3ph","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10799,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10799","url_meta":{"origin":13099,"position":0},"title":"A New Study of Solitary Pagans","author":"Chas S. 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