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PROFESSOR MARION GIBSON

Q. FIRSTLY, COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT CELTIC PAGANISM IS?

A. My definition of Celtic paganism is: the religion or religions that were practiced in Britain and neighbouring Celtic areas during prehistory and up to the time when Christianity arrived in Western Europe in around 500-800 CE. That’s a very broad definition, because it’s not wholly clear who the Celts were and it’s also not wholly clear what their religions were. ‘Celtic’ usually refers to the culture of the people who lived all over the British Isles and

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