In 1734 Sir Henry Fermor, a local benefactor, bequeathed money for a church and charity school for the benefit of the " very ignorant and heathenish people " that lived in the part of Rotherfield " in or near a place called Crowborough and Ashdown Forest ".
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The 1890 report of the Secretary of the Interior lists the activities of the Court on several reservations and apparently no Indian was prosecuted for dances or " heathenish ceremonies . " Significantly, 1890 was the year of the Ghost Dance, ending with the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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Certainly already in 1874, Moravian missionary J . E . Lundberg wrote : " It is now generally conducted at night, by moonlight, amidst a heathenish noise and it has become connected with great impropriety of conduct . " Professor Hugo Sujo says the rituals varied.
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In a similar vein, poet John Greenleaf Whittier detested what he deemed to be the " wicked " and " heathenish " message of " Walden ", claiming that Thoreau wanted man to " lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs ".
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Also prohibited were medicine men who use any of the arts of the conjurer to prevent the Indians from abandoning their heathenish rites and customs . The penalties prescribed for violations ranged from 10 to 90 days imprisonment and loss of government-provided rations for up to 30 days.
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The Long Parliament's ordinance of 1644 described maypoles as " a Heathenish vanity, generally abused to superstition and wickedness . " The only recorded breach of the Long Parliament's prohibition was in 1655 in Henley-in-Arden, where local officials stopped the erection of maypoles for traditional games.
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In the prophets of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, the word " bamot " connotes " seat of heathenish or idolatrous worship "; and the historians of the period apply the term in this opprobrious sense not only to places sacred to other gods but to the old holy places of Yahweh in the cities and villages of Persian period.
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"Muslims'presence [ in the United States ] is affirmed in documents dated more than a century before religious liberty became the law of the land, as in a Virginia statute of 1682 which referred to'negroes, moores, molatoes, and others, born of and in heathenish, idollatrous, pagan, and Mahometan parentage and country'who'heretofore and hereafter may be purchased, procured, or otherwise obteigned, as slaves . '"
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But the practices continued and, 35 years later, the minutes from the session records stated : " " 23 Dec 1705 Also after sermon ye min1'( the minister ) did guard ye Seamen to beware of ye old Heathenish superstitious practice of carrieing of lighted Clevies or torches about yr boats on new years even certifieing all that should be found any manner of way to concurr with or contribute to ye said work should be put in ye hands of ye civill magistrate . ""
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