The pagan Hwicce and Magonsætan are effectively prehistoric; the main evidence for them and their beliefs lies buried with them in their cemeteries, which are almost confined to the east of the kingdom of the Hwicce, along the Cots wolds and the Avon valley. Modern knowledge of Anglo-Saxon paganism from non-archaeological sources is scanty, for Christians had little reason to record memories and survivals of pagan belief and custom. Yet there are occasional exceptions. An eighth-century prayer book from Worcester contains a number of charm-like texts – Christian equivalents of the amulets with which some Hwicce were still being buried in the seventh century, and of the pagan fylacteria and incantationes forbidden by the Council of Clofesho in 747. One page of this prayer book begins with a prayer asking Christ's protection on every limb of the body. Then, after a doxology in garbled Greek, it concludes:

The word for the pagan Germanic sprite may be included to explain or reinforce the Christian demonology. The Christian writers of documents recorded further memories of paganism in the form of place-names alluding to Germanic gods, like Tiw and Woden, or to pagan shrines and sanctuaries (wēoh, hearg); but it is not easy to say how and when the places were associated with the gods, nor when the pagan shrines may have ceased to be used.