Her pre-Christian ancestry might bear looking into. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
The pre-Christian Romans had only one law dealing with. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity's Persecution of Gays: Historical Bigotry] Reference
Page 128, Volume 3 come by the end of the last pre-Christian century. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
And many stem from paganism, sun worship and other pre-Christian traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Nica Lalli: Preemptive Strike on the War on Christmas] Reference
Frobenius is convinced that it is at least pre-classical and pre-Christian in its beginning. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
But it was the genius of Catholic missionaries to take pre-Christian elements and transform them. From Wordnik.com. [Searching for Intimacy With the Gods of Fame] Reference
There can be little doubt that the Innocents 'Day beating is a survival of a pre-Christian custom. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Ancient writers tell us of some efforts in pre-Christian days toward the institutional care of the sick. From Wordnik.com. [Home Missions in Action] Reference
The laying on of hands was, since pre-Christian times, a symbolic act of the granting or passing of authority. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated Unbroken Chain] Reference
Perhaps an explanation of the "horsiness" of the day might be sought in some pre-Christian sacrifice of steeds. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Edinburgh: About the only time of year Edinburgh gets hot is during the year-end pre-Christian festival of Hogmanay. From Wordnik.com. [Tip Sheet] Reference
Like in pre-Christian England, there were these two green-skinned children found wandering on the edge of a village. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
It's Gothick, not in the corny white-face-and-eyeliner sense, but harking back to something pre-Christian and atavistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting Cheekbones of Hallowed Despair: James Wolcott] Reference
Paganism 1800S, EUROPE Most contemporary Pagans take pre-Christian practices and incorporate them into modern-day rituals. From Wordnik.com. [A Dictionary Of The Divine] Reference
Even Plato, without comparison the most transcendental philosopher of pre-Christian antiquity, knows no higher virtue than. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
In Pagan discourse, connections are made between their own practices at these sacred sites and that of pre-Christian peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Halloween's Celtic Roots] Reference
This philosophy is reflected in such pre-Christian myths as those of Zeus-Prometheus, Shakti-Shiva, Odin-Loki, and Horus-Set. From Wordnik.com. [The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #10] Reference
Undoubtedly it dates from remote pre-Christian times, and yet the tale is associated with modern ideas, and modes of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
There is evidence that great fires were lit on this hill in pre-Christian times, perhaps in order to mark the beginning of winter. From Wordnik.com. [Halloween's Celtic Roots] Reference
At the close of this book, when such relics have been studied, we may have gained some idea of what went on upon these pre-Christian holy-days. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
In the pre-Christian period, social clubs existed for the purpose of people having meals together, helping one another, and providing burial funds. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
Such a system is attested for pre-Christian times already; it was re-activated in the eleventh century and again from time to time, down to the present. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
In approaching a subject such as fairy-lore, it is necessary to prepare the mind of the reader to go back to days not merely pre-Christian but even pre-national. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
Supernatural occurrences have been a part of Ireland's rich cultural history, especially given its pre-Christian past with its Celtic traditions and Druidic mythos. From Wordnik.com. [Q & A: McPherson and Hinds Get Ghostly in The Eclipse] Reference
It would also be nothing more than natural that many elements in the Lives should be survivals from more ancient mythologies, having their roots in pre-Christian beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
He analyzes contemporary American culture in terms of pre-Christian fables and concludes, unsurprisingly, that we are sadly lacking in kings, wizards and enchanted forests. From Wordnik.com. [Drums, Sweat And Tears] Reference
So many are these superstitions, so "bewitched" is the time, that the older mythologists not unnaturally saw in it a Teutonic festal season, dating from pre-Christian days. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
If you're not a practitioner of modern Druidry, Wicca or various other spiritual paths that take their inspiration from pre-Christian times, it's unlikely you've heard of him. From Wordnik.com. [Wes Isley: A Tribute to Neopagan Visionary Isaac Bonewits (1949-2010)] Reference
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