Whats the difference between Pagan and Wiccan?”
Think of it this way: all Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. Paganism is to Christianity as Wicca is to Catholocism in this analogy. Paganism is best defined by what it is not rather than what it is. Paganism is literally hundreds of things, among them Asatru(worship of the Norse Gods), Kemetic/Netjer (worship of the Egyptian Gods), Native American and Australian Aborigine shamanism, Wicca, witchcraft, Voodoo, Afican Native religion, and too many others to fully list here. A pagan is generally defined as a follower of a nature religion that is not part of Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. The word pagan comes from the latin word for country dweller, and was originally used as a derogatory term by the Romans to describe any country “hick” who was unsophisticated or practiced a non-mainstream religion (and incidentally the early Christians were called pagans by the Romans LOL). Wicca is then a subset of paganism. Wicca is a word first used around 50 years ago
