Pagan Religion was a part of Great Britain’s Past

Paganism has been a part of old British Religious Practice 

When last year King Charles III put a picture of a Green Man on the invitations to his coronation in May, there was much discussion of what the leafy-faced symbol might signify. Was Britain’s new monarch hinting that he was a pagan? Or was he referring to the Green Man Inn in “The Wicker Man”, a classic British film which was released 50 years ago? 

This film was about a  Christian police officer sent to a remote Scottish island community to investigate the disappearance of a local girl has been described as "the Citizen Kane of horror movies"

The film deals with the rebirth of nature every spring, The Wicker Man did not die.

It was reborn in small second-run cinemas, on TV, on video and DVD, and over the years its reputation grew.

Academics and a growing fan base pored over its themes and strange quirks.

The film is a depiction of a Celtic Paganism that has been revived on a remote Scottish island. Whilst the director-duo  claim that the film strives for anthropological verisimilitude.

Pagans especially in Scotland did celebrate four seasonal festivals, known to the medieval Gaels as Beltaine (May), Lughnasadh (August), Samhain (November) and Imbolc (February). It is believed that the Celts had many gods and goddesses and that they worshipped their gods through sacrifice, giving them valuable objects to keep them happy.

Celts believed in healing deities; and many beleived fertility and harvest gods 

some believed they all descended from a god of the dead and underworld; “triplicity” is a common theme (with a number of deities appearing threefold); and many Celts were animists, believing that every part of the natural world had a spirit.

The priests of Celtic religion were "magico-religious specialists often called Druids "and had responsibility of  "divine worship, the due performance of sacrifices, private or public, and the interpretation of ritual questions". Oral Irish sources also referred to the druids, portraying them not only as priests but as sorcerers who had supernatural powers that they used for cursing and divination and who opposed the coming of Christianity. Some believe Druids to be the equivalents of teachers, while other believed that they were essentially tribal priests, having more in common with the shamans than with the classical philosophers. Some suggest that Druids evolved into what we know now as Poets and Bards: oral historians. Celtic burial practices — which included burying people with tidings of food, weapons and ornaments — suggest a belief in life after death. 

Stonehenge  is also believed to be an ancient pagan Centre. It is a world heritage site not very far away from London and one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments. It is built on the flat lands of Salisbury Plain in stages starting 5,000 years ago, with the unique stone circle erected in the late Neolithic period about 2,500 B.C. Some of the stones, the so-called bluestones, are known to have come from the Preseli Hills in southwest Wales, nearly 150 miles (240 kilometers) away, but the origins of others remain a mystery. is also link with Celtic religious practice. During summer solstice druids or Celtic priests , modern-day spiritualists gather at Stonehenge. This practice is linked to the ancient Celtic religious order, and pagans are there to perform dawn rituals in their traditional white robes. It's effectively all about the cycle of life, of death and rebirth.