We as Pagans already know Christmas trees and Easter eggs were originally Pagan, and you probably know the timing of these two holidays is Pagan too. Christianity simply adopted those ideas and applied them to Jesus. The ancient’s knew these messiahs or what some call god men did what were at the time considered miracles. The first Christians thought Jesus was a god man, so they told stories about Jesus doing miracles. They even had Him doing the same miracles as the other god men.
The Christians even had effigies of different acts copied to make the bible more appealing to the early pagans so as to incorporate us to there way.
There is much written about the so-called history of Witchcraft, some of it pure fiction. Reverence for the Great Goddess, reverence for the Earth and its seasons, can be dated back at least 25,000 years to the Palaeolithic period; and still continues to the present day. Although Christianity came very much to the fore in recent times, Pagan religions have existed on most continents since history began, indeed it was the official religion of the Roman Empire until the death of the last Pagan Emperor, Julian, in 326 C.E.
The terminology of the word Pagan comes from the Latin word paganus (meaning country dweller), this in turn was derived from pagus, Latin for rural area or village. As Christianity grew, often the last people to be converted lived in outlying areas. These people still practiced the old religion, and came to be termed Pagan or Heathen (heath dweller); names that due to political pressure from Christian sources became derogatory. However, the old ways have never been totally killed off. What was a religion based upon the reverence of nature and the worship of the Goddess and God, was manipulated to represent Devil worship (a Christian image of the Pagan Horned God), and persecution of so-called Witches began in earnest. This persecution came to frenzy in the 13th & 14th centuries and continued in varying degrees until very recent times. During this period, thousands of innocent people were tortured, maimed and murdered as Witches and Devil-worshippers.
Despite all of this, the religion persisted. Some of the more remote parts of Italy never suffered this persecution, and so the Italian Strega still exist today. Similarly in Britain, small covens of Witches thankfully escaped persecution. With the repeal of the Witchcraft act in 1951, Gerald Gardener published information relating to his experiences of a small coven in the New Forest. This publication formed the basis of modern day Wicca. Renewed interest in the old religions has fuelled the growth of Wicca, and in the US Wicca is recognised as an religion, something that has yet to happen here in Albion Although it's doubtful if modern day Witchcraft is practiced exactly how it used to be.