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- Druid abstract "A druid (Old Irish: druí; Welsh: derwydd) was a member of the educated, professional class among the Celtic peoples of Gaul, Britain, Ireland, and possibly elsewhere during the Iron Age. The druid class included law-speakers, poets and doctors, among other learned professions, although the best known among the druids were the religious leaders.Very little is known about the ancient druids. They left no written accounts of themselves, and the only evidence are a few descriptions left by Greek, Roman, and various scattered authors and artists, as well as stories created by later medieval Irish writers. While archaeological evidence has been uncovered pertaining to the religious practices of the Iron Age people, \"not one single artefact or image has been unearthed that can undoubtedly be connected with the ancient druids.\" Various recurring themes emerge in a number of the Greco-Roman accounts of the druids, including that they performed animal and even human sacrifice, believed in a form of reincarnation, and held a high position in Gaulish society. Next to nothing is known for certain about their cultic practice, except for the ritual of oak and mistletoe as described by Pliny the Elder.The earliest known reference to the druids dates to 200 BCE, although the oldest actual description comes from the Roman military general Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (50s BCE). Later Greco-Roman writers also described the Druids, including Cicero, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder. Following the Roman invasion of Gaul, the druid orders were suppressed by the Roman government under the 1st century CE emperors Tiberius and Claudius, and had disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century.In about 750 CE the word druid appears in a poem by Blathmac, who wrote about Jesus, saying that he was \"... better than a prophet, more knowledgeable than every druid, a king who was a bishop and a complete sage.\" The druids then also appear in some of the medieval tales from Christianized Ireland like the \"Táin Bó Cúailnge\", where they are largely portrayed as sorcerers who opposed the coming of Christianity. In the wake of the Celtic revival during the 18th and 19th centuries, fraternal and neopagan groups were founded based on ideas about the ancient druids, a movement known as Neo-Druidism. Many popular modern notions about druids have no connection to the druids of the Iron Age and are largely based on much later inventions, misconceptions, or pure fantasy.".
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Adomnán.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Annals_(Tacitus).
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Barbarian.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Barry_Cunliffe.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Beuno.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink British_Museum.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Category:Druidry.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Category:Esoteric_schools_of_thought.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Category:Religions_of_the_Greco-Roman_world.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Cicero.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Claudius.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Coligny_calendar.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Columba.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Commenta_Bernensia.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Common_Era.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Cornish_language.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Demon.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Dictionary_of_the_Irish_Language.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Diviciacus_(Aedui).
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Donald_Alexander_Mackenzie.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Druidess_(Celtic_mythology).
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Egypt.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Esus.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Felice_Romani.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Fili.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Fionn_mac_Cumhaill.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Franz_Boas.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink François-René_de_Chateaubriand.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Gaius_Suetonius_Paulinus.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Gallic_Wars.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Gaulish_language.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Hywel_Dda.
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- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Iolo_Morganwg.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Ireland.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Irminenschaft.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Irminsul.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Iron_Age.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Jesus.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink John_Aubrey.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink John_Toland.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Julius_Caesar.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Jupiter_(mythology).
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink La_Scala.
- Druid wikiPageWikiLink Latin.