My Boyfriend is a Werewolf: Chapter 7
We have strong pagan rituals and celebrations after all, so there was a blood feud with the missionaries and the werewolves from the start.
A Reading From the Gospel According to the Wolf
And the next thing you know you've recontextulized the aesthetics, iconography, modus operandi, cultural niche, and phraseology of the religious hegemony that once oppressed you in service of an explicitly pagan devotional story.
Explanations, At Least!
The wolf explained to the lion, "this is where came the legends of many secret places like atlantis and places of the like, as well as the ones of pagan gods and beings that came from the other side to here."
Grayson's Triad Book 1 -- Prologue
A campus chapter of habitat for humanity was having the pagan's equivalent of an amish barn-raising, taking advantage of the bright, clear weather to put up the exterior of a new house in a single autumn afternoon.
The Centurion
If he said yes, that taxes should be paid, then he was saying that his people should support the pagan empire that ruled them, which could lead to his stoning. but if he said no, he was preaching sedition and he would be seclus's.
Zippy Zipperdale--Moderately Mad Scientist: The 2nd Experiment
"thank the pagan gods." zippy muttered. ". . . i give you, the first cloned dinosaur of its kind to walk the earth in over 70 million years!" cristobel threw a switch on the machine, and it began to hum.
Bats of a feather (commission for Nyeogmi)
"it used to be a pagan celebration before it became that - saturnalia, i think? well, the thing is, something similar happened for bats and halloween." he paused to eat one of the grapes and smiled.
Morpheus Chronicles: 0 (rough)
From him the spirits of pagans entered into you, became one with you, and will forever be with you. think on this when you meet him again," the stern and seemingly omnipotent voice finished.
Knight Under a Crescent Moon
Dimitri was beginning to get worried, fearing that he was to be made as a pagan sacrifice. suddenly, there was a commotion at the hut's entrance where a maroon curtain was hanging over it. the flap of the hut opened, and an unusual creature walked in.
Hurricane Kim Chapter 16
Except for having to land every half hour for dan to rest, greta to puke, or james and patricia to do pagan rituals involving an imaginary cat. or whatever, i don't know. i stopped paying attention to what everyone else was doing every thirty minutes.
Spheres of Influence
The whole country was in shock. The world reeled. How could this have happened? "Mandrake, are you awake?" The otter awoke to pick up his phone groggily. "I am now, what's going on, Klein?" At this hour it had better have been important. "It's Mano....