The Druids originated from ancient Celtic tribes, at a time when the people had to live close to nature to survive. A Druid's connection to nature is the source of all their power (Spence166). At the time only the Celtic people called their religious professional Druids; other cultures had other names for their clergy, and expected different duties from them. To become a Druid, students assembled in large groups for instruction, and training, for a period of up to twenty years (Spence 67). The mythologies describe Druids capable of many magical powers such as divination and prophesy, control over the weather, healing, levitation, and shape changing themselves into the forms of animals. Druids even filled the roles of judge, doctor, mystic, and clerical scholar; in other words they were the religious intelligentsia of their culture.

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from many deities. A cauldron had magical importance it was said that if it was drank from it gave you wisdom. The druid egg was a small object possessing magic. Healing qualities was used to give instance healing. Animal and plant remains were used for decorative religious purposes Stones were also used to perform religious sacrifices or ceremonies.

The Druids are said to have practiced human sacrifices the Romans recorded that the Druids sacrificed condemned criminals. The Romans also wrote that such victims were tied into a huge wicker man shaped effigies and burned alive. Some mythologies describe one person's life being sacrificed so terminally ill noble would survive, indicating a belief in a cosmic balance of forces. The Druids were very noble to their gods, because the gods were similar to humans in disposition and temperament; they are so much more accessible and comprehensible to humans. The idea that the gods might be makers of morality and judges of humanity is a foreign idea to most ancient European people (Spence 68). This has happened since the pre-Christian times the people bel

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