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The Druids

by Peter Berresford Ellis

Who were the Druids? The Romans viewed them as occult priests indulging in human sacrifice and forecasting the future from human entrails. Some say they were amiable sorcerers. Others portray them as the intelligentsia of ancient Celtic society. In this book, Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through the evidence, and, with reference to the latest archaeological findings and the use of etymology, he provides the reader with the first authentic account of who and what they were. The Druids emerge as the intellectual caste of ancient Celtic society. They were the doctors, the lawyers, the...

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