Paganism is among the nation’s fastest-growing religions, with about a million pagans in the U.S. at last count.
Northeast Ohio has its own annual celebration of witches, crones and belonging — the Cleveland Pagan Pride Festival, now in its 16th year.
At the annual gathering earlier this month in the East Side suburb of Bedford, a steady beat of drums filled the air — to a backdrop of vendor tents and food trucks. Almost 5,000 attendees were present, some in witches’ hats and flowy black dresses on a hot summer evening…