Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Rev. Wendy Van Allen, author of the new Relighting the Cauldron. Over the centuries when the Roman Catholic and later Christian churches supplanted the Pagan religions of Europe, we know that many pre-Christian traditions, such as well offerings and blessings, were re-Christened and absorbed by the Church and continued as folk customs and traditions, even up until today. As a result, many of these customs and beliefs were then claimed by Christians to have always been their own, and we Pagans often find it tiresome to point out that the origin of these types of practices has nothing to do with Judeo-Christian theology or religion. It is