- Believing in, or referring to, the Burning Times
- Believing that 9 million women were killed in "The Burning Times"
- Thinking that Paganism is a fertility religion
- Thinking that devotion to a specific deity is the way to "do Paganism"
- Excessive reliance on crystals, white light, and all that sort of thing
- Excessive reliance on Goth couture to look witchy
- Pretending that you know for a fact what the exact nature of divine reality is, whether you are a duotheist, polytheist (soft or hard), polymorphist, monist, pantheist, animist, or whatever
- Assuming all Pagans celebrate the eight Wiccan sabbats
- Assuming that Wicca and Paganism are synonymous
- Claiming to speak for all Pagans on any topic whatever
- Not knowing that chakras come from Hinduism
- believing in the idea that all the significant points on the map can be joined up like a dot-to-dot puzzle to make a giant network of ley lines (such as the Michael and Mary Line), even though the said monuments were built several centuries, and in some cases millennia, apart.
- Uncritically accepting auras, the astral plane, and other Theosophical concepts (whilst being totally unaware that they derive from Theosophy)
- Christian-bashing (fundie-bashing is allowed)
- Reading only books published by Llewellyn, especially ones with "faery" in the title
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- Being aware that the witch persecutions were not (except in the case of Seidr-men) perpetrated against actual Pagans or witches
- Being aware that the population of Europe wasn't large enough for that many to be killed (and some of the victims of the witch persecutions were men)
- Being aware that fertility is overrated in an over-populated world
- Being aware that there are many paths and many goals (and some paths without goals...)
- Using whatever you found down the back of the sofa
- Wearing your own individual taste in clothes
- Being aware that some Pagans are polytheists
- Being aware that different traditions have different festivals
- Being aware that there are many different traditions followed by contemporary Pagans
- Being aware that there are different perspectives on many issues among contemporary Pagans
- Being aware of the issues of cultural appropriation
- Er... not believing in a giant network of leylines
- Being aware of sources of concepts and ideas
- Knowing the difference between different strands of Christian thought
- Having read Ronald Hutton and other academic works on Paganism(s)
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