CRITERIA⤓ .txt 2026-07-17T121634.146 000000000000560 Time: c. 6th century CE to the point at which Christianization and then modern state formation displaced the practice, region by region and therefore at no single date: West Slavic practice ends at Arkona in 1168, the East Slavic conversion is conventionally 988, and folk practice outlived both by centuries in attenuated form. The entry gives the date of attestation and the date of suppression separately, because for most of this material they are the only two dates there are.