including candles. On social media With a number of prominent social media personalities gaining significant followings from sharing their neopagan beliefs and practices on their channels, there are reports such as a 2018 iNews UK article that suggests these followings aren't covens but are instead communities. This also suggests that these online communities, although come together to meet, are not meeting in a covenstead, but something else entirely. Covensteads in folklore and popular culture Pagan sites and places witches gather to carry out rituals and to worship gods and goddesses have existed in folklore and popular culture for centuries. Chanctonbury Ring, located in South Downs, England with remains as old as 300BC, is believed to be an early pagan site and continues to have pagan ties with reports of groups still visiting the land to participate in occult activities. There are various interpretations of Paganism and Neopaganism in modern popular culture with TV shows, films and novels including American Horror Story: Coven,the Harry Potter series, Charmed, Witches of Eastwick and The Craft all being examples of entertainment depicting modern representations of ancient practices and beliefs. As each show, film or novel represent varying interpretations of these revived and renewed ancient religious practices, representations of convensteads also vary and often there is no identifiable covenstead at all. The 1998 American TV series Charmed, starring Hollie Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan, was a highly rated show that depicted three witch sisters living together in a single house they called the Halliwell Manor. This house was often the place in which they carried out spells and rituals with the Book of Shadows. However, in the Harry Potter books and films, the education of magic primarily occurs in an institute dedicated to the purpose, The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, instead of a more private and secluded room or home that is traditionally identified as a covenstead. References Wicca Modern pagan buildings