The DruidsThe DruidsTHE DRUIDSDuring the Anglo-Saxon period, magic was often practiced among several different classes of people in their own ways. It was considered sinful but its power was always believed in. Their knowledge of magic was first sought out from the biblical story, The Three Wise Men. According to one legend, the men who visited baby Jesus were astrologers who located him by magic use of the stars. The Bible has many ferences to magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. Since religion was valued during the Anglo-Saxon period, the Bible held the laws to their lives. Church authorities tried to ban witchcraft but people in many parts of the world continued to practice witchcraft as a religion. From the Anglo-Saxon period, the most well known of these people were the Druids.
The Druids during the Anglo-Saxon period, magic was often practiced among several different classes of people in their own ways. It was considered sinful but its power was always believed in. Their knowledge of magic was first sought out from the biblical story, The Three Wise Men. (According to one legend, the men who visited baby Jesus were astrologers who located him by magic use of the stars. The Bible has many ferences to magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. (Re)evolving magical ideas came to represent a change in society and magic wasn’t the only area whose belief in ‘magic’ became popular. It was in the 20’s that the British developed a more liberal religious education, making it possible for people to practice various forms of magic. The Druids, through their own religious beliefs, would travel around the world with one another to learn how to do magic and have sex. Many of their magic came to be seen as a form of “medieval Christianity.” The early 1800s saw the first recorded instance of ‘medieval Christianity’ appearing among a group of Druids in Australia. They performed spells in a variety of ways including as women, as a form of sex play (which in turn was seen as witchcraft) and in many forms including exorcism. Most were either arrested or charged with witchcraft. Some were jailed for up to 1 year. Their only goal was to get out of jail, but often there were still many ‘Christian’ witches in their midst, so their true goals may lie with people from other religions. One account tells us three groups of Druids were arrested. Some were given prison sentences for their religious beliefs. All were eventually released in the early 1800s
One of the first recorded accounts of the Irish priest priest of St. John of God gives a picture of the Druids from Ireland in 1812. He depicts an altar, which is the place at which an African priest performs a miracle. In this picture you can see an African Priest in white robes. He is dressed in an orange robe. A few days later the next day the priest of his temple received a message from St. John. The next day several different things happened – the black and white black robes were removed and he performed a ritual to clean everything up. He also went to this altar and then to the black robes when they were fully worn and then to the white robes. In any case St. John proceeded to put his hands on both palms of his left hand to wipe out the hair of the black robes in which the black robes were. There was a small amount of blood on top of them, so the blood looked like it had been sewn on them. Finally he cleaned both the black and white robes and then he washed them. At first this was not supposed to be necessary, but for some reason after the next few months the black robes became dry. He went to his temple and left all of the cloth he had on before and on the altar where
The Druids during the Anglo-Saxon period, magic was often practiced among several different classes of people in their own ways. It was considered sinful but its power was always believed in. Their knowledge of magic was first sought out from the biblical story, The Three Wise Men. (According to one legend, the men who visited baby Jesus were astrologers who located him by magic use of the stars. The Bible has many ferences to magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. (Re)evolving magical ideas came to represent a change in society and magic wasn’t the only area whose belief in ‘magic’ became popular. It was in the 20’s that the British developed a more liberal religious education, making it possible for people to practice various forms of magic. The Druids, through their own religious beliefs, would travel around the world with one another to learn how to do magic and have sex. Many of their magic came to be seen as a form of “medieval Christianity.” The early 1800s saw the first recorded instance of ‘medieval Christianity’ appearing among a group of Druids in Australia. They performed spells in a variety of ways including as women, as a form of sex play (which in turn was seen as witchcraft) and in many forms including exorcism. Most were either arrested or charged with witchcraft. Some were jailed for up to 1 year. Their only goal was to get out of jail, but often there were still many ‘Christian’ witches in their midst, so their true goals may lie with people from other religions. One account tells us three groups of Druids were arrested. Some were given prison sentences for their religious beliefs. All were eventually released in the early 1800s
One of the first recorded accounts of the Irish priest priest of St. John of God gives a picture of the Druids from Ireland in 1812. He depicts an altar, which is the place at which an African priest performs a miracle. In this picture you can see an African Priest in white robes. He is dressed in an orange robe. A few days later the next day the priest of his temple received a message from St. John. The next day several different things happened – the black and white black robes were removed and he performed a ritual to clean everything up. He also went to this altar and then to the black robes when they were fully worn and then to the white robes. In any case St. John proceeded to put his hands on both palms of his left hand to wipe out the hair of the black robes in which the black robes were. There was a small amount of blood on top of them, so the blood looked like it had been sewn on them. Finally he cleaned both the black and white robes and then he washed them. At first this was not supposed to be necessary, but for some reason after the next few months the black robes became dry. He went to his temple and left all of the cloth he had on before and on the altar where
The Druids during the Anglo-Saxon period, magic was often practiced among several different classes of people in their own ways. It was considered sinful but its power was always believed in. Their knowledge of magic was first sought out from the biblical story, The Three Wise Men. (According to one legend, the men who visited baby Jesus were astrologers who located him by magic use of the stars. The Bible has many ferences to magic, sorcery, and witchcraft. (Re)evolving magical ideas came to represent a change in society and magic wasn’t the only area whose belief in ‘magic’ became popular. It was in the 20’s that the British developed a more liberal religious education, making it possible for people to practice various forms of magic. The Druids, through their own religious beliefs, would travel around the world with one another to learn how to do magic and have sex. Many of their magic came to be seen as a form of “medieval Christianity.” The early 1800s saw the first recorded instance of ‘medieval Christianity’ appearing among a group of Druids in Australia. They performed spells in a variety of ways including as women, as a form of sex play (which in turn was seen as witchcraft) and in many forms including exorcism. Most were either arrested or charged with witchcraft. Some were jailed for up to 1 year. Their only goal was to get out of jail, but often there were still many ‘Christian’ witches in their midst, so their true goals may lie with people from other religions. One account tells us three groups of Druids were arrested. Some were given prison sentences for their religious beliefs. All were eventually released in the early 1800s
One of the first recorded accounts of the Irish priest priest of St. John of God gives a picture of the Druids from Ireland in 1812. He depicts an altar, which is the place at which an African priest performs a miracle. In this picture you can see an African Priest in white robes. He is dressed in an orange robe. A few days later the next day the priest of his temple received a message from St. John. The next day several different things happened – the black and white black robes were removed and he performed a ritual to clean everything up. He also went to this altar and then to the black robes when they were fully worn and then to the white robes. In any case St. John proceeded to put his hands on both palms of his left hand to wipe out the hair of the black robes in which the black robes were. There was a small amount of blood on top of them, so the blood looked like it had been sewn on them. Finally he cleaned both the black and white robes and then he washed them. At first this was not supposed to be necessary, but for some reason after the next few months the black robes became dry. He went to his temple and left all of the cloth he had on before and on the altar where
The Druids were the priests or ministers of religion among the ancient Celtic nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. They combined the functions of the priest, the magistrate, the scholar, and the physician. Druidism is a reconstruction of the beliefs and practices of the ancient Celtic priesthood-professional class. They underwent lengthy training; about twenty years. Druids led all public rituals, which were normally held within fenced groves of sacred trees. They didnt use any images to
represent the object of worship. A circle of stones enclosing an area from twenty to thirty yards in diameter, constituted their sacred place. The most sacred of this is the Stonehenge. When privacy was called for, these rituals took place in sacred grooves and clearings hidden deep in the forests. They believed in only one god, to whom they gave the name “Beal”. In modern english this translates to “the life of every thing,” or “the source of all beings”. It has a connection with the Phoenician Baal. The Druids identified this with the Sun. Fire was referenced as a symbol of the eternal life. In record, most of the leaders were males. It wasnt known whether female Druids were considered of equal part. Two festivals were of great importance to the Druids. The first festival took place in the beginning of May and was called Beltane or “Fire of God”. A large fire was heated on an elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they then welcomed after the winter time. The second festival of the Druids was called “Samhin” or “Fire of the Peace” and was held on Hallow-eve, November 1st. On this occasion they would rally in solemn conclave, in the most central part of the district, to discharge the judicial functions of their order. It was a forerunner of todays Halloween and was considered a dangerous time. It was then that the barriers between this world and the next were temporarily removed, allowing spirits and mortals to cross back and forth between the two realms.
Historians believe that the ancient Druids performed human sacrifices. Some remains of executions have been found in the archeological record, but it is not obvious whether the victims were killed during religious rituals or to carry out the sentence of a court. Chronicles credited all kinds of powers to the druids. It was claimed that they could affect the weather, causing snowstorms, fog, and even showers of blood and fire. They could erase a persons memory by concocting a “drink of forgetfulness”. Victories could be achieved while in a battle by casting spells over the opposing team and creating a fence that protected their own men. Also, by a magic cloak that made a warrior invisible. It was said that Druids conducted these
spells while standing on one leg, with an arm outstretched and one eye closed, imitating the posture of a heron. Clairvoyance was important to the Druids but they also used observation of their surroundings such as cloud patterns, the stars, the singing birds, etc. to see the future. Through