Each had its own King and Pope Gregory wanted Augustine to visit the Anglo-Saxons and persuade them to abandon their Pagan beliefs and embrace the Christian way of life.
But, as the teachings of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ permeated the Roman Empire, The Romans became hostile to all manner of paganism, including the Ancient Egyptian Cults.
As Christianity rose in popularity, the Norse religion struggled to maintain itself against a religion that was so very different, and once Christianity triumphed over the pagan Norse beliefs, the temples were destroyed.
Some of those older pagan beliefs were overtaken by the growing influence of Christianity, and the belief in those ancient mythological creatures was increasingly seen as unchristian and was even associated with the devil.
And ever since then, it's been sort of a struggle to try to maintain that pagan belief system in the face of the overwhelming power and growing power of Christianity, right?
Pagan beliefs involved the use of both black and white magic, with white magic associated with healing, and a legitimate and celebrated practice often carried out by women.
Essentially a religion from the Near East that's continually expanding outward, pushing back the traditional pagan beliefs of a bunch of different peoples, the Germanic peoples just being one of those.
The ideas around witches at Salem had been brought over by European settlers throughout the previous century and were the result of a long history of pagan beliefs.