In Britain, a growing number of fans paganism

The sharp increase in the number of followers of various pagan cults registered in the UK. According to figures released today by the National Statistical Service, in 2001, in the United Kingdom, there were about 31 thousand pagans, now their 360 thousand. As a result of pagan groups have become the fastest-growing cult organizations in the country. At the same time experiencing a boom in cults, which unite witches. If you are in the 17 th century in England and Scotland, they were burned at the stake, now they have become the most popular figures in the UK's leading lights. "What happened in modern British society has led to the emancipation that women are trying to achieve a special position in social structures that allow them to dominate," - said Professor Ronald Hutton of Bristol University. "The role of the witch gives them this opportunity," - he believes. In this contemporary British Paganism has a strong environmental focus and is now closer fused with the movement defenders of nature, say British experts.