First Area ‘Pagan Pride Day’ Will Try to Dispel Myths, Inform Public

They don’t turn people into toads. They don’t cast evil spells. They don’t worship the devil.

Pagan Thomas “Moss” England (above) of Woodstock connects with the sun’s energy Monday on the shore of Sherando Lake in Frederick County. A “grounding” was held by area Pagans at the lake. They include (in photo below clockwise from top, Thomas England, Linda “Rhea” England of Woodstock, Chris “Aiden” Nielsen, 8, of Strasburg, and Kimberly “Rowan” Haines of Strasburg. “Pagan Pride Day” will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley, about 2 miles south of Stephens City on U.S. 11.

But such misconceptions persist about the alternative religious movement called Neo-Paganism, says Tom Vandeburg, a 34-year-old systems engineer from Stephens City who has been Pagan for more than 18 years.

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The Pagan Pride Project