Paganism

I guess it's time for my 2nd religious of the month because I'm awesome like that. So remember my last one about deism and whatnot? about how I believe that there is a god who has moved on to better things than us and all that? well that's still what I believe, but I learned quite a bit about paganism this weekend. For those who have no belief in the paranormal, or to a much less extent than this I apologize, I don't know what I believe yet, though I am certain there are ghosts and demons out there, other things like creatures of the fey(sp) I'm not so sure of yet.

Back story
this weekend I went up to the farm, aka the non functioning farm owned by my cousin Chris' family. We have parties up there from time to time, there were 15 of us there this time and by the end of the night all but 3 of us were drunk but oh well, i cant rant about my dislike of alcohol some other time, at least there weren't any other drugs this time. But last about a 1 minute walk from the farm is a family graveyard dating back to 1793, Chris is related to everyone buried in the graveyard and he takes care of it.
last time we were there I heard a few of them talking about George, and how he was getting angry. Apparently whenever people come to the graveyard George stands on the rise by the entrance and watches them, sometimes moving about, and he was really angry, and that's why he couldn't move on. So Donovan decided that this time they would do a ritual to make George move on.

the event
When we got to the farm we set a ring of candles around the house. We put 12 people inside the ring and then the 4 at the north south east and west corners said a prayer summoning the guardians of the towers of the north south east and west, one for each element. Then we finished the circle of protection around the house. This was to keep anything angry from getting at the people inside the circle. The four people who planned this then left the circle to go to the graveyard where they made another circle and started their thing to dismiss George, I don't know most of what happened up there.
An hour later they came back, they sprinted down the hill and pounded on the door till we unlocked it and let them in, a few people claimed they heard screams. They told us that there was something else in the graveyard that attacked them once they started talking to George, it was taking the souls int he graveyard apparently, they couldn't get rid of it and that's why they ran back as soon as their task was done. Jack, Chris' brother, then went outside to blow out all the candles. He cam back in once he finished and told us that he heard children laughing outside, i wanted to go out but Donovan and the others were really stressed out and said not to tempt spirits. But later when we looked back outside a few of the candles were re lit, needless to say we were a little sketched out because no one went outside after jack had blown them all out.
Later, Donovan felt the circle crumbling the thing was trying to break through and Donovan was breaking down and crying. Chris and 3 others went back up to the graveyard to try to fight this thing off to help Donovan. When they came back they were literally carrying Amanda, she had fainted and was only semi-concise.
Apparently while in the graveyard she saw the thing as it truly was and it started attacking her, a piece of it was inside of her when they banished it and thus we spent the next few hours helping her, trying to get it out of her.
I know it sounds crazy but she was in serious pain, her body wasn't listening to her and she was having trouble doing anything. it was really scary for me, because this was the closest to proof of paranormal I've seen first hand.

Well anyway, during this time I asked lots of questions about the things they were doing and listened to their conversations. I learned quite a bit about paganism from them, about how everything exists as long as it is believed, about Egyptian, Norse, Hindu, and even christian Gods. So now I'm going to try to learn more by myself and hopefully Chris will teach me some stuff, but it should be fun.

And if you're a skeptic and don't believe at all I a, curious as to what you think on this whole thing