Here he is:
My sister called me a heathen when I announced to the family that I was an atheist.
In a word, yes, they are the same. "Pagan" derives from "pays", the french word for country, thus a person from the country. "Heathen" means person from the heath, i.e. much the same, but perhaps more wilderness and less rural. Both however are synonymous for people from isolated rural areas who still practice the "old ways". We have a lot of synonyms that are increasingly abusive for people from rural backwaters including:
A pentagram daubed on the bodies is a definite indication of satanism? Surely there'd be more evidence, wouldn't there? Couldn't it just be drunk kids? I knew several in the 80s who would pull a stunt like that.
More mutilations in the New Forest, the"satanists" are back. where are the Pagan Police when you need them?
A flock of sheep have been mutilated and killed in a national park, sparking fears of a Satanic-style cult operating in the area.
Six ewes and lambs were found brutally stabbed in the latest sheep killing spree, with one being discovered with its throat slit.
Photographs show one sheep with its intestines hanging out after suffering a four-inch gash to its side, while another suffered similar injuries.
The attacks in the New Forest National Park, Hampshire, are the latest in a string of livestock killings which date back over five years in the celebrated area.
The murders are the lastest ina series on satanic-stlye killings in the area (Picture: Solent News)
The string of sinister attacks have been linked to Satanism – as previously sheep have had pentagrams daubed on their bodies after being massacred.
The latest attacks happened in Cadnam – the same village where a sheep was stabbed to death in 2020 and left lying next to a cross and broken pitchfork.
Cadnam farmers Andrew and Sarah Parry-Norton today revealed on Thursday morning that six of their animals had been targeted.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/10/sheep-brutally-mutilated-killed-satanic-ritual-20813617/
