The Druids need your vote.
So who are Manhattanhenge's Druids and banshees?
It's in the hands of the Druids.
According to Roman sources, Celtic Druids engaged extensively in human sacrifice.
Fear drives them to do so? PRESENT DAY Who were the Druids?
And as I woke the next morning, I saw six Druids standing against the window, above the stirring London street below.
As I woke that next morning I saw six Druids standing against the window, above the stirring London street below my window.
To celebrate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where
the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
The Druids of ancient Britain believed that the mistletoe held magical powers;
hence, it was used as protection against demons, spells, and other kinds of evil.
The Druids-- for thusly are their priests named-
hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree that bears it, as long as that tree be an oak.
In Polwhele's histories of Devonshire(1797),
he wrote of Dartmoor as“one of the principal temples of the Druids”, as evident in iconic Dartmoor sites such as Grimspound,
Bowerman's Nose and Crockern Tor.
Poems such as William Mason's Caractatus(1759)
helped popularise the idea that the Druids led British resistance to the invading Romans- but
by the 1790s sophisticated metropolitan observers treated this stuff with scorn.