paganism

They represented, for her, fecundity and paganism.

It is one of many paths that come under the umbrella of Paganism, which was found by the 2021 census to be the most popular "other religion" in England and Wales.

Her journey in discovering Paganism and accepting her bisexuality happened "almost in tandem", as she gradually learnt her atheist beliefs were not giving her "a sense of fulfilment".

Brigid’s Day is “an invitation to stop the pointless millennia old war of Christianity versus paganism” and see “the wisdom and beauty in both lineages,” wrote Melanie Lynch, founder of Herstory, which campaigned in support of the new national holiday.

Souling, a longstanding tradition with links to Christianity rather than paganism, is comparable to trick-or-treating in that it involved going from door-to-door to beg for "soul cakes".