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I would suggest caution in trying to link modern day activity to what may or may not have happened in the past. Access to resources from the medieval period onward was frequently strictly regulated and the notion of a peasantry that could wend its way into the woods and fields and enjoy nature's bounty unfettered may have been pretty much a dream for most of our ancestors. Likewise ideas of a continuity of pagan practice need to be tested against the mulitplicy of religious, social and ecological changes that have often been brutal in their effect of retained beliefs.
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