Tracing Occult Pasts: Language and Our Understanding of Pre-Christian Pagan Practices Dr. Michelle Rubinova Spotleva, PhD First Published October, 2019 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Harvard Press ABSTRACT: Through recent restoration and translation methodology, Linguists and Philologists have begun to uncover more social context on long-obscured pagan and occult practices in Eastern and Mainland Europe. 1. INTRODUCTION The beauty of language is that it’s a