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Pagans and witches serving in the British military
Dozens of pagans and witches serve in the British military.
Scores of Rastafarians and spiritualists are also among services personnel who follow alternative religions, official figures show.
A total of 770 members of the Navy, Army and RAF declared their faith as ‘other’.
It includes 120 devotees of paganism, which is based on a reverence for nature and was famously explored in the 1973 film The Wicker Man.
At least 60 pagans are in the Army and they would be the first to dance around a maypole on May Day or gather at Stonehenge to see the sun rise during the summer solstice.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/28/pagans-and-witches-serving-in-the-british-military-4681211/