Plucking pagan heartstrings in knotty 'Norma' - Plucking pagan heartstrings in knotty 'Norma' Items Used By Pagans (not affiliated with this site) The setting for Bellini's "Norma" in Roman-occupied Gaul, circa 50 B.C., is so distant and exotic that it might as well be mythic. Source: Pagan/Wiccan News Studies of Dreams, Mystics & Paranormal.