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20 Dec 2009, 12:15 am

Here are the pagan stereotypes that come to my mind: Overweight, red-haired, ultra-liberal women (and gay men) who dance nude in the woods and are a little bit out there.

ps. No offense to anyone as I believe in neopaganism even though I fit none of those stereotypes.

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20 Dec 2009, 12:19 am

when they say 'By Jove', they mean it...

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20 Dec 2009, 12:26 am

Chunky goth chicks
14 year old girls that saw Charmed and Buffy
Heavy stoners

There, 3 more.

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20 Dec 2009, 5:12 pm

I would say likes folk music, works in a shop selling crystals and dream-catchers, wears funny medival style clothes and has long messy hair.

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20 Dec 2009, 6:14 pm

Going to claim I don't have any.
Know several Pagans and they're all quite different.

Although, my sister-in-law is a red headed New Yorker of French Italian ancestry, a tad overweight, and probably would dance naked in the woods.

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20 Dec 2009, 6:58 pm

I'm sort of a pagan.

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23 Dec 2009, 10:23 am

Most of my friends are Pagan and I am Unitarian Universalist. But a ton of people think that they worship Satan o.O wtf

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23 Dec 2009, 10:35 am

They make their annual pilgrimage to Burning man http://www.burningman.com/
and run around topless at the Oregon Country Fair http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/

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23 Dec 2009, 9:26 pm

Haley wrote:

Most of my friends are Pagan and I am Unitarian Universalist. But a ton of people think that they worship Satan o.O wtf

Unitarians do not worship Satan. However one should not get them peeved or they will come and burn a question mark on your lawn.

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24 Dec 2009, 7:23 am

ruveyn wrote:

Haley wrote:

Most of my friends are Pagan and I am Unitarian Universalist. But a ton of people think that they worship Satan o.O wtf

Unitarians do not worship Satan. However one should not get them peeved or they will come and burn a question mark on your lawn.

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That is funny. ive always been curious about going to a Unitatrian church.

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25 Dec 2009, 12:21 pm

Not all Pagan's are Puerto Rican or of Spanish origin (though yes, my cousins are) - there is a Pagan family from Italy with quite a stunning red and white crest!

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28 Dec 2009, 6:35 pm

For pagan stereotypes watch The Simpsons episode "Rednecks and Broomsticks"

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29 Dec 2009, 8:05 am

history_of_psychiatry wrote:

ps. No offense to anyone as I believe in neopaganism even though I fit none of those stereotypes.

Neopaganism, noun. The ability to believe in anything, while having the historical grounds to keep a straight face while doing it.

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29 Dec 2009, 8:10 am

My ex boyfriend was Pagan.

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03 Jan 2010, 12:47 pm

Ha! I never knew I was such a sterotype! I am an ultra-liberal, overweight, red-headed pagan woman.

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05 Jan 2010, 3:54 am

"Let us worship with the Druids,
They drink fermented fluids,
And run naked through the woo-ids!
That's good enough for me."

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