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Our guinea pig Marcus, from the band Pagans SOH, had to agree to a testing regime that involved giving 12 saliva samples on the day before, the day of the gig, and the day after.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2019

In 1977, he was tapped by the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office to serve on loan with its Fugitive Motorcycle Task Force, focusing on the outlaw Pagans and Warlocks biker gangs.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2018

About 1.5% of the American population identifies as “other faiths,” including “Unitarians, those who identify with Native American religions, Pagans, Wiccans, New Agers, deists, Scientologists, pantheists, polytheists, Satanists and Druids, to name just a few.”

From Salon • May 7, 2017

“Many practicing Pagans are afraid of being public,” Moonsong added, “but when they see my horns it reminds them it’s okay to be yourself.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2016

Tertullian, in exhorting the Christian women not to intermarry with Pagans, gives as one reason that they would not permit them to attend this “nightly convocation.”

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole