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This is probably the longest and best treatment of early medieval texts referencing folk practices, often referred to as being pagan.

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The deposition of coins at the site has taken place since at least the 1960s, with visitors lodging the coins into cracks in the site's stones.[17] As of 2015, the local wardens from The National Trust are tasked with removing said deposits, and around 2010, English Heritage removed information about the coin deposition custom from the site's information panel.[17] The coins removed by the wardens are then donated to local charities.[18] As the folklorist Ceri Houlbrook noted, all of this deposited material "contributes to the ritual narrative of a site".[19]

Modern Pagans, including Druids and Heathens use Wayland's Smithy for ritual purposes. Anthropologist Thorsten Gieser thinks the modern ritualistic use of the site by new age religions to communicate with "ancestors", "spirits of the earth", and an "earth goddess" is symbolic of its folkloric links to Wayland and its use as a prehistoric burial ground.[20]

The deposition of coins at the site has taken place since at least the 1960s, with visitors lodging the coins into cracks in the site's stones.[17] As of 2015, the local wardens from The National Trust are tasked with removing said deposits, and around 2010, English Heritage removed information about the coin deposition custom from the site's information panel.[17] The coins removed by the wardens are then donated to local charities.[18] As the folklorist Ceri Houlbrook noted, all of this deposited material "contributes to the ritual narrative of a site".[19]

Modern Pagans, including Druids and Heathens use Wayland's Smithy for ritual purposes. Anthropologist Thorsten Gieser thinks the modern ritualistic use of the site by new age religions to communicate with "ancestors", "spirits of the earth", and an "earth goddess" is symbolic of its folkloric links to Wayland and its use as a prehistoric burial ground.[20]

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Reading about Shinto I fell upon 3 different terms describing types of Kami.

Chinjugami are tutelary kamis for a specific region, area or location. Ujigami are kamis worshipped by a family or clan. Ubusunagami are kamis based on where you were born. Even if you move somewhere else, you will still have the ubusunagami kami of your birthplace.

Because of various factors, these 3 categories started to merge early on. Clans who moved to a certain location would adopt the local chinjugami as their ujigami. And because people began to become more sedentary, the chinjugami and ubusunagami began to merge too.

Obviously the situation is far more complex, just from the sources I have linked.