# Which pagan cult lasted into the 1300s?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 30, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279 "2007-11-30T04:38:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/21 "2007-12-01T15:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] So? Borrow the book, & see if it justifies the cost. Then, buy or not. [/QUOTE] Did you not read the following?: > [@Tamerlane](#): > > I am incredibly slothful and absent-minded. **The late fees would probably rival the full price of the book** -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/22 "2007-12-01T17:28:53Z")
So? Mail it back to the library. They’ll take it. If on time, no fees. I.L.L. books can often be renewed for extra time, too. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/23 "2007-12-01T17:45:10Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] A European knight didn’t even have to leave Europe to get credit as a Crusader; he could just go to Poland/Lithuania and kill heathen peasants with the Teutonic Knights. [/QUOTE] You know, I seem to recall that being mentioned in one of the prologues to the _Canterbury Tales._ ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/24 "2007-12-01T19:07:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] So? Mail it back to the library. [/quote] What are you not reading/getting? 😕 > [@Tamerlane](#): > > I am incredibly **slothful and absent-minded** -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/25 "2007-12-01T19:28:10Z")
Weird hijack… Honestly it is more #1 than #2. I just find it frustrating not to have sources immediately on hand. One thing I don’t have is an eidetic memory, more’s the pity. Of course I really _am_ pretty bad at returning things ( or paying bills, for that matter ) on time. I just paid my car insurance yesterday on the very last day before cancellation and not because of any shortage of funds ;). Hyperbole aside ( no I probably wouldn’t _quite_ rack up $100 in late fees ), I’m just not a very responsible library patron. Which slightly bugs me. Hence I’d usually just as soon avoid the hassle and lingering guilt. I like libraries, but I haven’t been in one in five years. But it is mostly the first reason. C’mon now - aren’t we all flawed in our own idiotic little ways :)? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279/26 "2007-12-01T20:22:37Z")
[QUOTE=633squadron] It says he was _pagan_, which shocked me. I had thought that Christianity had spread throughout Europe long before that, at least in some form. [/QUOTE] Well, yes. Christianity has spread through North America, too, but we have pagans all over the place, and that was 700 years ago. [QUOTE=633squadron] More importantly, what “cult” did he worship? The only northern European “pagan” religions I know are the Celtic cult and Norse mythology, and my impression was that they had died out long before the 14th century. [/QUOTE] Several points here: 1. Pagans don’t necessarily worship cults. Technically, they’d _belong_ to a cult rather than worship it, but either way paganism is not the same as cultism. 2. Many pagans aren’t part of organized groups at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pagan-cult-lasted-into-the-1300s/428279.md?page=1)