Druids Sentence Examples

In other words, the Druids constituted the learned and the priestly class, and they were in addition the chief expounders and guardians of the law.

In Mela we find the Druids teaching in the depths of a forest or in caverns.

The functions of Caesar's Druids we here find distributed amongst Druids, bards and poets (fili), but even in very early times the poet has usurped many of the duties of the Druid and finally supplants him with the spread of Christianity.

Hence Caesar seems to assign more extensive functions to the Druids than they actually possessed.

Cicero remarks on the existence among the Gauls of augurs or soothsayers, known by the name of Druids, with one of whom, Divitiacus, an Aeduan, he was acquainted.

In Strabo we find the Druids still acting as arbiters in public and private matters, but they no longer deal with cases of murder.

Under Tiberius the Druids were suppressed by a decree of the senate, but this had to be renewed by Claudius in A.D.

According to this writer the Druids held the mistletoe in the highest veneration.

After this the continental Druids disappear entirely, and are only referred to on very rare occasions.

Ausonius, for instance, apostrophizes the rhetorician Attius Patera as sprung from a race of Druids.

When we turn to the British Islands we find, as we should expect, no traces of the Druids in England and Wales after the conquest of Anglesea mentioned above, except in the story of Vortigern as recounted by Nennius.

After being excommunicated by Germanus the British leader invites twelve Druids to assist him.

In Irish literature, however, the Druids are frequently mentioned, and their functions in the island seem to correspond fairly well to those of their Gaulish brethren described by classical writers.

In the heroic cycles the Druids do not appear to have formed any corporation, nor do they seem to have been exempt from military service.

The Druids are represented as being able to foretell the future and to perform magic. Before setting out on the great expedition against Ulster, Medb, queen of Connaught, goes to consult her Druid, and just before the famous heroine Derdriu (Deirdre) is born, Cathbu prophesies what sort of a woman she will be.

He is given a potion by some Druids, which banishes all memory of his recent adventures and which also rids his wife Emer of the pangs of jealousy.

We are further told that at the court of Conchobar no one had the right to speak before the Druids had spoken.

In other texts the Druids are able to produce insanity.

The Irish Druids seem to have had a peculiar tonsure.

In religion, the chief feature was the priesthood of Druids, who here, as in Gaul, practised magical arts and barbarous rites of human sacrifice, taught a secret lore, wielded great influence, but, at least as Druids, took ordinarily no part in politics.

Bola was an Assyrian term for Bael or Bel, the god of the Phoenicians and Druids.

The next controversialist who appeared on the scene was the famous Dr Stukely (1740) who propounded the theory that Stonehenge, the stone circle at Avebury (Abury), &c., were temples for serpent worship, "Dracontia" as he called them, the serpent worshippers being the Druids.

Subsequent writers dropped the ophite portion of this theory, but still continued to regard Stonehenge as a temple or observatory of the Druids.

On the occasion of famine the druids advised that the son of a sinless married couple should be brought to Ireland to be killed in front of Tara and his blood mixed with the soil of Tara.

We might naturally expect to find the druids active in the capacity of priests in Ireland.

D'Arbois de Jubainville maintains that in Gaul the three classes of druids, vates and gutuatri, corresponded more or less to the pontifices, augurs and flamens of ancient Rome.

In ancient Irish literature the functions of the druids correspond fairly closely to those of their Gaulish brethren recorded by Caesar and other writers of antiquity.

The Druids were believed to have the power to render a person insane by flinging a magic wisp of straw in his face, and they were able to raise clouds of mist, or to bring down showers of fire and blood.

Whether or not the Irish druids taught that the soul was immortal is a question which it is impossible to decide.

There is one passage which seems to support the view that they agreed with the Gaulish druids in this respect, but it is not safe to deny the possible influence of Christian teaching in the document in question.

There can be no doubt that he met with great opposition both from the high-king Loigaire and from the druids.

After the death of St Patrick the bond between the numerous church families which his authority supplied was greatly relaxed; and the saint's most formidable opponents, the druids, probably regained much of their old power.

Like the Gaulish druids described by Caesar, the poet (fili) and the druid possessed a huge stock of unwritten native lore, probably enshrined in verse which was learnt by rote by their pupils.

With regard to tonsure it would seem that the druids shaved the front part of the head from ear to ear.

In this battle Diarmait is stated to have employed druids to form an airbe druad (fence of protection?) round his host.

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The rays can also symbolize the three aspects of druidry usually called bards, Ovates and Druids.

In Wales as late as the 12th century bards wrote of Druids as still extant.

These meteors were supposed to form the fiery chariots in which the souls of the Druids were conveyed to heaven.

Richards recovered strongly from a first-lap spin at Druids, but could not depose the defiant Rice.

Val Pagan Federation of many groups of many different pathways, including some druids, and not all pagans belong.

Andy said that in the festival days we had seen the druids dressed up in white being ushered into the stones by the police.

Beside warriors, they had druids, physicians and musicians among their number.

Learning to speak Welsh will not enable me to conduct rituals in the language of the ancient druids, in some wonderfully romantic manner.

Celtic druids were among the first identifiable religious tribes to inhabit the area.

When Caesar came to Britain he wrote about local druids.

A tetrastyle pedimented Roman Doric porch sits to the center, its unjointed columns hewn from menhirs taken from a nearby druids ' temple.

The Druids held that the Supreme Being was too exalted to be confined within temples made with hands.

On lap nine Green dived through into the druids hairpin to claim third.

And we know that the Druids used to burn henbane and breathe in the fumes to put them into a hallucinatory trance.

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The true reason why the oak was held inviolable may have its origins with the Iron Age Druids and their use of mistletoe.

The Druids, for example, gathered mistletoe during their September celebration.

The ancient Druids believed that hanging mistletoe in your doorway protected you from evil spirits.

Many people are familiar with the fact that the old Druids harvested mistletoe from the Oak with a golden sickle.

In dim and mysterious groves of oak, wherefrom the sacred mistletoe was gathered, the Druids decided upon the merits of the competitors.

There was a circle of druids in the stones doing a recitation.

Druids hold the land sacred, and honor the trees as symbols of the beauty and strength of creation.

Druids stone circle near Birkrigg has seen its fair share of damage in the past.

Thus, the Land, which is of vital importance to Druids, is often symbolized in the form of a goddess of sovereignty.

The unifying bond between all the Celtic tribes was their common priesthood, the Druids.

Pliny is also our authority for the reverence in which the mistletoe when found growing on the robur was held by the Druids.

We find in Caesar the first and at the same time the most circumstantial account of the Druids to be met with in the classical writers.

Tacitus, in describing the attack made on the island of Mona (Anglesea) by the Romans under Suetonius Paulinus, represents the legionaries as being awestruck on landing by the appearance of a band of Druids, who, with hands uplifted towards heaven, poured forth terrible imprecations on the heads of the invaders.

We may cite two instances of the magical skill of the Druids.

A number of trials of skill between the Christian missionary and Loigaire's Druids ensue, and the final result seems to have been that the monarch, though unwilling to embrace the foreign creed, undertook to protect the Christian bishop. At a later date the saint was probably invited by Loigaire to take part in the codification of the Senchus Mor in order to represent the interests of the Christian communities.

Among numerous early writings on Stonehenge may be mentioned Stonehenge and Abury, by Dr William Stukely (1740; reprinted in 1840); Davies, Celtic Researches (1804), and Mythology of the Druids (1809) Hoare, Ancient Wiltshire (1812), vol.

In early Irish literature the druids chiefly appear as magicians and diviners, but they are also the repositaries of the learning of the time which they transmitted to the disciples accompanying them (see Druidism).

There was a party of Druids walking down to the sacred grove to perform their daily rites.

He pushed hard through Paddock, but spun at Druids, losing a lot of ground.

According to an Irish legend, St. Patrick created the Celtic cross while converting Druids to Christianity.

The priests, known as Druids were experts in Celtic religious and magical practices and used the four leaf clovers to keep away evil spirits.

Legend says that he was preaching to a group of Germanic Druids and wanted to prove to them that nature isn't sacred.

The Celtic priests were also known as the Druids, and they made Samhain a big event by lighting large bonfires.

The Druids also dressed up in costumes that were made from animal heads and skins.When they were finished with the Samhain celebrations, the Celts re-lit the fires in their homes from the flames of those sacred bonfires.

It was originally used by the Druids as a symbol of the moon goddess, but as many people converted to Christianity and Catholicism, what this cross represented changed to it's current Christian meaning.

Step away from religion, and you are likely to hear people with small celtic cross tattoos explain to you how the ink represents the original phallic symbols carved into stones by Druids.

Wiccans, Pagans and Druids all have a belief in the heavens, Mother Earth and the like, in which the stars and constellations play a large part in those beliefs.

The constellations themselves are filled with wonderfully colorful myths and legends as the Romans, Druids, American Indians and the Norse (among other cultures) all have stories and beliefs that include the stars.

The story explains that when certain druids resisted Christianity they became pixies, and the more they resisted the tinier they became.

He tells us that all men of any rank and dignity in Gaul were included among the Druids or the nobles.

We are, however, informed by Diodorus and Strabo that this class was composed of Druids, bards and soothsayers.

The traditions of the Druids perished with them.