Fasting in Paganism?

answer: I know those who do shamanism or scrying will sometimes fast. Some pagans will refrain from heavy meals, alcohol and any caffeine before a ritual/working. Others don't.

In my branch of paganism, I've only seen refraining from heavy meals before a shaman working - like seidhr and avoiding alcohol before a blot (even with a drinking horn being passed around during a blot - people don't drink enough even for a buzz)

by using fact many of the worldwide nonetheless desires spirituality of a few sort so as that they seek. They locate it on their very own. And what they locate is that Paganism is lots extra gratifying than the nightmare the Abrahamic religions paint. In Paganism there is not any hellfire and torture for eternity. In Paganism, there is wish and that wish isn't given via the assumption of basking in a gods presence for all eternity.

In some forms of shamanism, fasting is required. I am not aware of any other branch of paganism that regularly includes it.

As a matter of my individual practice, rather than as a part of doctrine, I have sometimes fasted as a means of both sacrifice and for clarity and focus.