R: The Druid's Three Circles of Existence

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A brighter being than earth’s cold son of ill—
A brighter being, yet a Druid still— .

The Druids believed that the soul after death was
transmigrated into a higher sphere. They believed that both
spirit and matter eternal; that the world, unchangeable
in its substance, varied constantly in its form, under the
influence of two agencies fire and water; the soul in quitting
the body, passed into a superior or inferior sphere according
as it had deserved rewards or punishments. “ There are for
the soul,” observes The Triads, “three circles of existence :
first, the circle of infinity and immateriality, where the Deity
alone could live or dwell; secondly, the circle of a necessary
state (of origin or trial), inhabited by the being who draws
his existence from matter; and man goes through this circle;
thirdly, the circle of felicity, inhabited by the being who
draws his existence from what is animate, and man penetrates
through this to heaven.” And further on“ Three causes
make man return to the circle of trial: first, negligence in
instructing himself; secondly, his little love of good; thirdly,
his adherence to evil. The man who had lived well, resumed
in the circle of felicity his passions and his habits; the warrior
refound his weapons and his horse; the huntsman his dogs
and his javelins; and the priest his faithful followers. News
was sent of the living to the dead upon the pyre’s flame:
letters were thrown upon the bodies either for themselves or
other deceased. Money could be lent on earth payable in
a future state; and necessarily such wonderful and wild
conceptions became the sources of the most awful, the most
sublime, and the most fearful sacrifices.”—Translation of
“Histoire de la Bretagne, par Pitre Chevalier, dedié ~au
Comte de Chateaubriand."
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From the notes in:
Agabus; or, the Last of the Druids: an Historical Poem, [with notes.-The dying Druid, a poem by R. A. Davenport.]
books.google.com

Ref.
Animate > 1530s, "to fill with boldness or courage," from Latin animatus past participle of animare "give breath to," also "to endow with a particular spirit, to give courage to," from anima "life, breath" (see animus).

felicity

1.	n	pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
2.	n	state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

Q: Two level Faith or Belief and Teaching Systems for Druids.

While short and just an overview, I found this ring very true.

And wonder your thoughts, on a two-tiered faith?

" The Celtic religion was divided into the mysterious and the popular; the mysteries were deemed too sacred for the vulgar, who regarded the Druids as superior beings. They were venerated; what their secret doctrines were, none else knew, but the Culdees thought them pernicious. " Ref. 1


In my own order at its creation many years ago. We split it into two, groups, the Priest (Druid path) and the Tribe (Celt's path) only the Celts were allowed to stay in the Faith's Closet if they wished or needed to. Both Paths had ranks that they could develop into. And the Gods and Goddesses worship was fine and lead by the Druids in the Celt's path. While a view more toward honor, respect, communications and negotiation with otherkin and what most call all gods and goddesses on the Priest (Druid's path).

TDK Reference 1: The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1859), pp. 313-317
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Topics: Druids, Legends, Scars, Alphabets, Countries
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25502564.pdf

R: Master Druidic Reference Books

A work in progress:

Last update 03/02/2019 :23:55 EST. New Books marked  @

This is a list of books from the 1600's onward that have been the sources of much Neo-Druidic books and beliefs in the Twenty and Twenty-first Centuries.

These texts and the MSS they have referenced are the root sources of much of our modern beliefs, disbeliefs and conflicting beliefs about the ancient Druids and Celts

If a listed book has no reference link try archive.org, books.google.com, Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org, or Global Grey www.globalgray.co.uk.

Where it says OCR, the scanned PDF has an associated text file so you can word search or copy text. This most often less than perfect but of great help. 

I believe organization by publish date gives us the best way to read these books and follow the flows of ideas from on author to the next or how Druidism was perceived by society at different times.

To my knowledge, this is the first publication of scanned free pre-WWII Druidic works organized in this matter. And is part of  "Craeftgemot Witancoveyne, Druidic Church, and School's" outreach efforts.

TDK

The Classics:

1100's)
Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) is a collection of poems and prose narratives that purports to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages. There are a number of versions, the earliest of which was compiled by an anonymous writer in the 11th century.
Lebor Gabála Érenn: Book of the Taking of Ireland Part 1-5. ed. and tr. by R. A. S. Macalister. Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1941.
http://celt.ucc.ie/indexLG.html
http://www.maryjones.us/jce/jce_index.html




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1634) 
KEATING'S GENERAL HISTORY OF IRELAND.
 Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Foundation of Knowledge on Ireland, more usually translated History of Ireland), was written in Early Modern Irish and completed ca. 1634.  It depicts Ireland as an autonomous, unitary kingdom of great antiquity. The early part of the work is largely mythical, depicting the history of Ireland as a succession of invasions and settlements, and derives primarily from medieval writings such as the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Dindsenchas, royal genealogies and stories of heroic kings. 

Translated from tlie original Irish, with many currious Amedments taken from the Psalters of Tara and Cashel, &c., BY DERMOD O'CONNOR, Esq. (1861)
Other translations: http://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100054/index.html
PDFand OCR, 40mb 560 Pages
Archive.org
***

1650)

A Dissertation Upon the Druids
by M. ESAIAS PUFENDORFF, OF CHEMNITZ.
Translated from the Latin by EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S, F.S.A. (Scot) 

in 1886

PDF with OCR 1.6mb 62 pages

books.google.com

*** I highly recommend reading this one.

1740)
Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids
by William Stukeley
PDF and OCR 3.mb 98 pages
books.google.com and www.globalgray.co.uk.
Many excellent plate drawing, a must for anyone interested in the
great henge's history. I recommend the Google scanned version.

1780)

Galic Antiquities: 

Consisting of a History of the Druids
PARTICULARLY OF THOSE OF CALEDONIA;
A DISSERTATION on the AUTHENTICITY OF THE POEMS of OSSIAN;
AND A COLLECTION of ANCIENT POEMS,
Translated from the Galic ot
ULLIN, OSSIAN, ORRAN, &c.
By JOHN SMITH,
MINISTER AT KILBRANDON, AROYLESHIRE.
Antiquam cxquirite matron. Virg.
EDINBURGH:
Printed for T. C A D E L L, London ;
and C. ELLIOT, Edinburgh.
MDCCLXXX.
PDF with OCR  22mb 352 pages
Perhaps the most quoted authority on the Druids in the 1800's. Note there are two versions on Google, get the 22mb one with embedded OCR for text searches.

1794)

 Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:
PRESERVED BT TRADITION, AND AUTHENTIC MANUSCRIPTS,
FROM VERT' REMO'I'E ANTIPLUITT;
t ſi NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
TO THE BARDIC 'TUvNES ARE ADDED
Variations for the Harp, Piano-Forte, Violin, or Flute.
WITH A SELECT COLLECTION OF THE
Þenm'llion, and Englym'on,
OR, POETICAL BLOSSOMS, EPIGRAMMATIC S_TAN'ZAS,
AND PASTORAL SONGS OF WALES,
WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.
LIKEWISE, A GENERAL History of the Bards, and Druids.
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME:
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MUSIC, AND POETRY.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A COPIOUS DISSERTATION ON THE
'Mufical Instruments of the Aboriginal Britons.
DEDICATED,' BY PERMISSION,
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALE
Vol. by Edward Jones
PDF and OCR 47.4mb 185 pages with musical Scores also.
Books.google.com

A good reference and references many MSS that we do not have access to.

1794)

Antiqua Restaurata

A Concise Historial Account of the Ancient Druids

ShewingTheir Civil and Religious Governments

Cermonies, Groves, Derivations, and Etymologies,

Categorically Deduced: With Biographical Sketches.

by Jacob Des Moulins, P.G.A.

PDF, 3.9 mb 58 pages

books.google.com

@1794) An Account of ſome Druidical Remains in Derbyſhire. In a Letter to the Right Honourable Frederick Montagu, F. A. S. By Hayman Rooke, Eſq. F. A. S

1809)

THE MYTHOLOGY AND RITES

OF THE BRITTISH DRUIDS

by Edward Davies 

PDF and OCR 33.2mb 642 pages

1810)

A COMPLETE HISTORY of the DRUIDS;

THEIR ORIGIN

Manners, Customs, Powers, Temples, Rites, and Superstition ;

With An Inquiry into their Religion,

And its Coincidence with the Patriachal

PDF and OCR 3.6 mb 64 pages

books.goolge.com

1812)

DRUID

A SERIES OF MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

by ADDWYN I DDRAGON, DDAWN Y DERWYDDON.

PDF and OCR 7.3mb 236 pages

books.google.com

*** Note to self the opening of this is worth a blog! Also have the opening poem downloaded.

1814)

A new edition of Toland's History of the Druids

By John Toland 

It is twice as long as Dr. Smith's, which is held out to be a detailed and complete history. There is not one fact of importance in Dr. Smith's history,

which has not been anticipated by Mr. Toland.
 PDF and OCR 32.8mb 434 pages

Archive.org

1815)

Alfred, an epic poem

by Henry James Pye

PDF and OCR 4.9kb 8 pages

books.google.com

1820)
THE WELSH NONCONFORMISTS' MEMORIAL ;
OR, Cambro = British Biography
CONTAINING SKETCHES OF THE Founders of the Protestant Dissenting Interest IN WALES.
To which are prefixed,
AN ESSAY ON DRUIDISM, AND INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL INTO BRITAIN.
INCLUDING THE AUTHORS MINOR PIECES,
AND HIS LAST VIEWS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
BY THE LATE REV. WILLIAM RICHARDS, LL.D.
Persecuted but not forsaken—cast down but not destroyed !—Paul.
EDITED, WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BY JOHN EVANS, LL.D.
Author of the Sketch of the Denomination* of the Christian World.
" Cari parentes—cari Ilberi—sed carior Patria est."— Cicero.
The essay on Druids is interesting and about 70 pages long.
PDF and OCR, 18.6 md 504 pages
Books.google.com

1821)
VIEWS OF STONEHENGE
CONJECTURES ON THE
Mysterious Monument of ancient Art,
Stonehenge, ON SALISBURY PLAIN
by THE MOST EMINENT WRITERS,
Ancient and Modern
ON THAT STUPENDOUS FABRIC
To WHICH IS ADDED,
A HISTORY OF THE DRUIDS
The supposed Architects of Stonehenge
A NEW EDITION, IMPROVED
PDF and OCR 4.1mb 82 pages.
books.google.com

1827)

The Druids, a Poem

by T.E. Hankinson

of Corpus Christo College

PDF, 1mb 16 pages

books.google.com

1829)

THE CELTIC DRUIDS;

or an attempt to Shew,

THAT THE DRUIDS WERE THE PRIESTS OF ORIENTAL COLONIES

WHO EMIGRATED FROM INDIA, AND WERE THE INTRODUCERS OF

THE FIRST OR CADMEAN SYSTEM OF LETTERS, AND THE

BUILDERS OF STONEHENGE, OF CARNAC, AND OF OTHER

CYCLOPEAN WORKS, IN ASIA AND EUROPE.

BY Godfrey Higgins, Esq.

PDF and OCR 33mb 324pages

books.googl.com

@1829) Identity of the Religions called Druidical and Hebrew
DEMONSTRATED FROMTHE NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THEIR WORSHIP, AND,
FROM A CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN CUSTOMS, CARTHAGE,
BABYLON, PERSIA, ARABIA, AMERICA, INDIA, GREECE, ITALY; AND, AMONG THE ETRUSCANS, BONZES, GYMNOSOPHISTS,
CHALDEANS, &c. LONDON: Printed for JOHN NIMMO, 27, UPPER GOWER STREET,
oPPosITE THE UNIVERSITY; wILLIAM BLACKwoon, EDINBURGH ;
 AND will IAM CURRY, JUN. AND CO. DUBLIN.
PDF OCR P145
books.googl.com

1830)
EANTHE:
A TALE OF THE DRUIDS,
AND OTHER POEMS.
By SANDFORD EARLE, Esq.
PDF and OCR 9mb 383 pages

@1833)
History of the Island of Mona or ANGLESEY:
INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF ITS NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, DRUIDICAL
 ANTIQUITIES, LIVES OF EMINENT MEN, THE CUSTOMS OF THE COURT OF THE
 ANTIENT WELSH PRINCES, &c. Bei NG The P. R. I Z E E S S A Y TO WHICH WAS
 ADJUDGED THE FIRST PREMIUM AT THE ROYAL BEAUMARIS EISTEDDFOD,
 HELD IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1832.
BY A N G H A R A D   L L W Y D
PDF and OCR 9mb 383 pages
books.google.com

1841)

A Hstoric Account of IONA

From the Earlist Period

BY L. MACLEAN,

PDF and OCR 4.2mb 134 pages

books.google.com

1842)
DRUIDICAL REMAINS
and Antiquities of the Ancient Britions,
Principally in Glamorgan;
Contains a general accout of the same,
In England, Wales, Scotland, France, etc;
with Notes and Illustrations.
on the Learning, Orgin, and Superstitions of the Druids
The Downfall of Druidism as a Religious System, and the Introduction of Christianity into Britian.
by J. Roberts, Swansea.
PDF, 2.3mb 92 pages
books.google.com

1846)

@ THE PICTORIAL HISTORY 0F ENGLAND Being A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE,
AS WELL AS A HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM.

ILLUSTRATED with SEVERAL HUNDRED WOOD-CUTS 0F MONUMENTAL RECORDS; COINS; CIVIL AND MILITARY COSTUME; DOMESTIC BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, AND ORNAMENTS; CATIIEDRALS AND OTHER GREAT WORKS OF ARCHITECTURE; SPORTS AND OTIIER ILLUSTRATIONS OF MANNERS; MECHANICAL INVENTIONS; PORTRAITS OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS; AND REMARKABLE HISTORICAL SCENES.
BY GEORGE LL QRAIK AND CHARLES MACFARLANE,
ASSISTED BY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS. VOLUME 1.
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.
M.DCCC.XLVI.  (1846)
books.google.com
OCR 887 Pages Druid ref. 187x

BILL NYE'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

FROM THE DRUIDS TO THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII

ILLUSTRATED BY W. M. GOODES AND A. M. RICHARDS

PHILADELPHIA

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

MDCCCXCVI

PDF and OCR 23.9mb 223 pages

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1847)
Leabhar na g-Ceart, or THE BOOK OF RIGHTS,
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME EDITED,
WITH TRANSLATION AND NOTES,
by JOHN O'DONOWAN, ESQ., M. R. I. A.,
BARRISTER AT LAW.
PDF and OCR 15.6mb 326 pages
books.google.com
Irish Breon Law which I believe is and important part of any Druidic study of our past.

) 1850

Druidic Stones

by THE REV, J, WILLIAMS (AB ITHEL),

The object of this Paper is simply to furnish the reader

of the Archceologia Cambrensis with a digest of the

Bardic traditions, with a few passing observations, in

reference to the ancient monuments of the Druids, under

the impression that they will thus conduce to the better

elucidation of points on which antiquaries are too frequently

divided in opinion.

PDF and OCR 1.1mb 16 pages

books.google.com
While there is a lot of good reference to ancient megalitic store site.
You will notice how heavely this time period relied on the works of  works of dear Edward William 1747-1826. Iolo of Glamorgan. Welsh antiquarian, accused Literary Forger. To me perhaps the most influential person in Meso-Druidry with roots running deep in Neo-Druidry still.

1851)

AGABUS; or THE LAST OF THE DRUIDS:

AN HISTORICAL POEM.

BY ESTHER LE HARDY, 
[with notes.-The dying Druid, a poem by R. A. Davenport.]
I believe you will find the notes section most interesting.

LONDON:

WILLIAM PICKERING.

PDF and OCR 2.0mb 157 pages

books.google.com

1858)

TALIESIN or THE BARDS AND DRUIDS OF BRITAIN.

A Translation OF THE REMAINS OF THE EARLIEST WELSH BARDS,

AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE BARDIC MYSTERIES.

by D. W. NASH, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY Of LITEBATURE.

LONDON :

JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,

86, SOHO SQUAKE.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

PDF and OCR 12.9mb 344 pages

books.google.com

The works attributed to the ancient and mystical Bard Taliesin are some of our

most valuible detailed reference or tales. And often parts are quoted in

Neo-Druidic works. Please keep in mind Mr. Nash may not have as much of a 

mystic and Druidic spirit as we could have hoped for.

1861)

THE VEIL OF ISIS; OR MYSTERIES OF THE DRUIDS

BY W. WINWOOD READE

PDF and OCR 2mb 137 pages

www.globalgray.co.uk

1862)
Y GWIR YN ERBYN Y BYD. 
BARDDAS Volume 1
OR, A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE THEOLOGY, WISDOM, AND USAGES OF THE BARDO-DRUIDIC SYSTEM
OF THE ISLE OF BRITAIN.  
by Edward William 1747-1826. Iolo of Glamorgan.
WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY 
THE REV. J. WILLIAMS AB ITHEL 

PDF and OCR 11.6mb  425 pages

books.google.com

Barddas and works of dear Edward William 1747-1826. Iolo of Glamorgan. Welsh antiquarian, accused Literary Forger. To me perhaps the most influential person in Meso-Druidry with roots running deep in Neo-Druidry still. What are your views. Do you accept any, most, none of his views and works on Druidism once you know he is the source?

1868)

LUDA:

A LAY OF THE DRUIDS.

HYMNS, TALES, ESSAYS, AND LEGENDS.

BY JOHN HARRIS

PDF and OCR 5.8mb 272 pages

books.googl.com

From my How to be a Druid Grove groups Reading circle "The Druid Path" group.

A quick glance one might discard the Book as just a Christian written book of poems bad mouthing the ancient Druids. As was the case for all books of its era if you wanted to get them published and pay the rent.

But as the author mentions many little details about the Druids in the poems. He also gives (for the period in which it was written) excellent notes on where the Details came from in the Classics.

Given us a chance to track the sources of so many Druidic facts or claims one often reads in today's Neo-Druidic writings.

So if one takes the time this little book is an acorn goldmine.

Hymns, tales, essays, and legends

By John HARRIS (a Cornish Miner.) 1868

Do not be turned off by its Christian trapping but seek its an acorn of gold.

1868)

The four Ancient Books of Wales

CONTAINING

The Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of

The.Sixth Century

Volume 2

BY WILLIAM F. SKENE

PDF and OCR mb  pages

books.google.com

) 1869

ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND.

PART II.

LAW OF DISTRESS (COMPLETED); LAWS OF

HOSTAGE-SUKETIES, FOSTEEAGE, SAERSTOOK

TENURE, DAER-STOCK TENURE,

AND OF SOCIAL CONNEXIONS.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR PUBLISHING THE ANCIENT

LAWS AND INSTITUTES OF IRELAND, VOL. II.

DUBLIN : PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE:

PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER THOM, 87 & 88, ABBE Y-STREET;

HODGES, FOSTER, & 00., 104, GRAFTON-STREET. LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER

PDF and OCR 19.8mb 448 Pages

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Irish Breon Law which I believe is and important part of any Druidic study of our past.

1871)
AN ESSAY On
THE DRUIDS
THE ANCIENT CHURCHES
AND
THE ROUND TOWERS
OF IRELAND.
BY THE REV. RICHARD SMIDDY.
PDF and OCR 15mb 320 pages

1874)

Y GWIR YN ERBYN Y BYD. 

BARDDAS Volume 2

OR, A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE THEOLOGY, WISDOM, AND USAGES OF THE BARDO-DRUIDIC SYSTEM

OF THE ISLE OF BRITAIN.  

by Edward William 1747-1826. Iolo of Glamorgan.

WITH TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES BY 

THE REV. J. WILLIAMS AB ITHEL 

PDF and OCR 3.5mb  168 pages

books.google.com

*** Barddas and works of dear Edward William 1747-1826. Iolo of Glamorgan. Welsh antiquarian, accused Literary Forger. To me perhaps the most influential person in Meso-Druidry with roots running deep in Neo-Druidry still. What are your views. Do you accept any, most, none of his views and works on Druidism once you know he is the source?

1879)

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland

by Standish O'Grady

PDF, 2.7mb 88 pages no ocr 

archive.org

E-book www.gutenberg.org with OCR

Larger Version 7.9mb 348 pages Archive.org no ocr

1882)
Origins of English history
by Elton, Charles Isaac, 1839-1900
Topics Ethnology, Druids and Druidism
PDF and OCR 10.7mb 447 pages + plates

Archive.org (note there are several copies and not all have OCR)

1885)

The Arch-Druid:

or The Conquest of the Brigantes

A Lay of Ancient Britain

by Middlewood Kirkbride

PDF, 2.4mb 216 pages

books.google.com

1888)

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland: With Sketches of the Irish Past.

By Lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde

PDF and OCR (not all  scans are OCRed.) 9.3mb 374 pages

books.google.com

One may wish to start at the Bardic Chapter p274, but a search for druid also
helps.

1890)

ANCIENT CURES, CHARMS, AND USAGES

OF IRELAND

by Lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde;
With contributions to Irish lore

PDF and OCR 5.1mb 256 pages

books.google.com

One may wish to use the search function for Druid to find the best parts.

1891, 1901)

Highland Superstitions 

connected with the Druids, Fairies, Witchcraft, Second-Sight,

Hallowe'en, Sacred Well, and Lochs, with several curious instances of 

Highland Customs and Beliefs

by Alexander MacGregor, M.A.

books.google.com

While on must just ignore the required Christian trapping of the age.

I believe one can find a bit of very old gold in theses Leaves.

1892)

A Daughter of the Druids. [A Novel.] 

by Alice Kimball HOPKINS  

While I have not decided if this work is well-researched truth or just inspired fiction, you will find, I belive a lot of Golden Threads in this book to ponder.

Also a newspaper clipping at its beginning about the famious Druid "Dr. William Price" and his cremation in 1893. Like Dr. Price, we also believe in Druidic Cremation as the prefered ending of the body at death and crossover of the Soul to Summerlands. TDK

PDF and OCR, 4.5mb 298 pages
books.google.com

1894)

@  CYCLOPAEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE. Vol. II.—C, D
PREPARED BY THE REV JOHN M'CLINTOCK. D.D., AND JAMES STRONG, S.T.D.
NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, Publisher (1894)

PDF and OCR, x mb 941 pages
books.google.com

CELTS AND DRUIDS,

AND THEIR STORY FROM THE EARIST TIMES

IN TWELVE CHAPTERS.

BY THE Rev. A. SCOTT, ROTHBURY.

PRICE TWO 8HILLINGS AND SIXPENCE.

PDF and OCR 3mb 140 pages

books.google.com

1894)

Irish Druids And Old Irish Religions
by James  Bonwick
PDF and OCR, 2.1mb 200 pages


1896)
Three Irish Bardic Tales
The Three Tales known as
the Three sorrows of Story Telling
by John Todhunter
PDF and OCR 160 8.2mb pages

1897)
THE DOLMENS OF IRELAND
THEIR DISTRIBUTION, STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS,
AND AFFINITIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES;
TOGETHER WITH THE FOLK-LORE ATTACHING
TO THEM; SUPPLEMENTED BY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE
ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, AND TRADITIONS
OF THE IRISH PEOPLE.
WITH- FOUR MAPS, AND EIGHT HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS,
INCLUDING TWO COLOURED PLATES.
by WILLIAM COPELAND BORLASE, M.A.,
LATE PRESIDENT 01- THE ROYAL INSTITUTIOn OF CORNWALL,
AND ONE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS OK THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON; BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I. PDF and OCR, 18.9mb 312 pages
Archive.org or books.google.com
Vol. 2. PDF and OCR, 35.1mb712 pages
Vol. 3. PDF and OCR, 39.1mb 1233 pages
archive.com
There is much to be pondered by the Great Stones and often the Druid names and legends remembered by the peoples around them.



1900)

CARMINA GADELICA - ORTHA NAN GAIDHEAL
HYMNS AND INCANTATIONS
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES ON WORDS, RITES, ANDCUSTOMS, DYING AND OBSOLETE : ORALLY COLLECT- ED IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, BY ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL
VOLUME I,   NOTE: Volumes 2-3 can also be downloaded 
PDF and OCR 11.4mb 339 pages
archive.org
*** Magick, Druidic Draíocht  or Conjure for real effects over Nature and Man, where a very important part of our ancient past and I believe should also be in our present and Future paths.

1902)

@ The Literature of the Celts (1902)
by Magnus Maclean M.A. D.S.C.
Blackie and Sons LIMD London and Bailey EC Glasgow and Dublin

PDF and OCR 3mb424 pages

books.google.com

1904)

Our Little Irish Cousin

THE Little Cousin Series

(TRADE MARK)

Each volume illustrated with six or more full page plates in

tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover per volume, $1.00

By Mary Hazelton Wade; Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman

EBOOK,  .4mb 

www.gutenberg.org

*** A short fictional Children's Novel but I highly recommend reading.

It gives a very informative view of Irish live, living views of the Druids
and a bit of Irelands sad mistreatment as seen in the beginning of the
Twenty Century.

1906)
CELTIC RELIGION IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES
by EDWARD ANWYL, By M.A.
PROFESSOR LATE ACTING-CHAIRMAN CLASSICAL UNIVERSITY OFFORWELSH INTERMEDIATE SCHOLAR COLLEGE AND OF THECOMPARATIVE OFOFCENTRAL ORIEL WALES, EDUCATION COLLEGE, WELSH ABERYSTWYTH PHILOLOGY BOARD OXFORD
*** An excellent coveral of historial accounts of the Celtic Druids!

PDF. OCR  69 pages
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1911)

Survivals in belief among the Celts

by Henderson, George, d. 1912

M.A.(Edin.), B.Litt.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Vienna)
lecturer in celtic languages and literature, university of glasgow
author of "the norse influence on celtic scotland"

Topics Folklore, Celtic, Celts, Ethnopsychology, Druids

PDF and OCR, 7.3mb 368 pages

Archive.org
*** Recommed Reading for all.

1916)

STONEHENGE: TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY

BY FRANK STEVENS

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO. LTD

E-Book and OCR 2.8mb 117 pages

www.globalgray.co.uk.

Fully illustrated. Chapters include; Stonehenge Summarised;

Salisbury Plain; Stonehenge; The Lithology Of Stonehenge;

The Stones Without The Circle; The Building Of Stonehenge;

When Was Stonehenge Erected?; What Was Stonehenge?;

The Druid Question; The Barrows Of Salisbury Plain; and,
Valedictory.

1917)
The Druid Path
by Marah Ellis Ryan
PDF, 20.1mb 321 pages.
books.google.com
Her one and only Druid Novel, fictional but I found it an inspiring read
and it has musical score and song also.

1920)

@ ARCHAIC ENGLAND
AN ESSAY IN DECIPHERING PREHISTORY FROM MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS. EARTHWORKS.
CUSTOMS. COINS. PLACE-NAMES, AND FAERIE SUPERSTITIONS
BY HAROLD BAYLEY
AUTHOR OP " THE SHAKESPEARE SYMPHONY," " A NEW.LIGHT ON THE RENAISSANCE,' " THE LOST LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLISM," ETC. One by one tiny fragments of testimony accumulate attesting such
a survival and continuance of folk memory as few men of to-day have suspected. " —Johnson PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL LTD. 1920

PDF, 31.5.1mb 937 pages.

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Druids and Druidism

 A List of References

Compiled by George F. Black, PHD

New York Public Library

Scanned only

***A really rare and valuable find, even if it is hard to use.

1922)

@ May, 1922 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ERA 
Page 175-176
Irish Healing Skill Hereditary.
Centuries of Celtic and Druidic Practice and Tradition Back of Medical and Pharmaceutical 
Systems of Today—Potions, Charms and Religion Associated in Ancient Beliefs
By GEORGE NILES HOFFMAN
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THE Pharmaceutical Era
(ISSUED MONTHLY)
EDITED BY EZRA J. KENNEDY, Ph. C.
VOLUME LV. January to December, 1922
NEW YORK, D. O. HAYNES & CO., Publishers, No. 3 Park Place

1924)

Druidism the Ancient Faith of Britan

by Dudley Wright

PDF and OCR 9.2mb 191 pages

1949)

Druids: their origins and history

by Spence, Lewis, 1874-1955

Topics Druids and Druidism, Druids and druidism

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introductory -- Druidism in Celtic areas -- The Druidic priesthood -- Druidic
theology and ritual -- Ideas concerning the afterlife, festivals, and sacrifice --
Places of worship -- Druidism and the divine kingship -- Influence of other cults
on Druidism -- Druidism and the magical arts -- Theories concerning the origins
of Druidism -- Conclusions.

This book may be borrowed and read online for 14 days at Archive.org
*** >>James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 –
3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult
scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of
Great Britain and Ireland, and Vice-President of the Scottish Anthropological
and Folklore Society.<<

Place keeper: 60 books

Scholar's Series: #Ogham

The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1859), pp. 313-317
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Topics: Druids, Legends, Scars, Alphabets, Countries


While short and just an overview, I found this to ring very true.

 " The Celtic religion was divided into the mysterious and the popular; the mysteries were deemed too sacred for the vulgar, who regarded the Druids as superior beings. They were venerated; what their secret doctrines were, none else knew, but the Culdees thought them pernicious. "

http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25502564.pdf

From an 1808 book, I believe all Druidic Bards should have, and its free.
Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:

Druid's White Robes:

Ref.1  A History of the Bards, and Druids. Vol. 1By Edward Jones, 1808

From Ref.1

Druid's White.

Bard's Blue.
Vate or Ovates Green.

Ref. 1 A History of the Bards, and Druids. Vol. 1By Edward Jones, 1808

Reference 1: 

Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards: PRESERVED BT TRADITION, AND AUTHENTIC MANUSCRIPTS, FROM

VERT' REMO'I'E ANTIPLUITT;t ſi NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.TO THE BARDIC

'TUvNES ARE ADDEDVariations for the Harp, Piano-Forte, Violin, or Flute.WITH A

 SELECT COLLECTION OF THEÞenm'llion, and Englym'on,OR, POETICAL BLOSSOMS,

 EPIGRAMMATIC S_TAN'ZAS,AND PASTORAL SONGS OF WALES, WITH ENGLISH

 TRANSLATIONS.LIKEWISE, A GENERAL History of the Bards, and Druids.FROM THE

 EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME:WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MUSIC,

 AND POETRY.TO   WHICH IS PREFIXED, A COPIOUS DISSERTATION ON THE

'Mufical Instruments of the Aboriginal Britons.DEDICATED,' BY PE RMISSION,TO HIS

 ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALE Vol. by Edward Jones, 1794

Re. 2 Note, The long, medial, or descending s (ſ), is used in this old 1808 publication.

R: Our Druidic Names and Labels.

A work in progress. I will try and add as many sources as possible.

Reference 1.

Ref. A History of the Bards, and Druids. Vol. 1By Edward Jones, 1808

Scholar's Series: Ancient Druidic Celtic Calendering with Days starting at Sunset

Our Day starts on the Sun's Setting.


This article with many Old Irish and other Nations/Races/Tribes name and customs. Is excellent commentary one why the Druid's and others may have used Sunset instead of Sunrise for starting the new day. I think you will find it worth saving to your own Lebor-Druidic.

While I tried to transcribe it into new text from the OCR scan and visual correction. I found that I was just too unsure of some of the Italics Words to finish it with any confidence.

So I recommend you use the original scan. But here is part of my effort to give you a taste of it.

 On the Oriental Emigration of the Irish Druids (Continued)

Author(s): Lieutenant General Vallancey
Source: The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Nov. 1, 1808), pp. 176-181

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30072063

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 [1808] On the Oriental Emigration of the Irish Druids
The smallest cycle of the Hbernian Druids was that of the apparent daily revolution of the sun, reckoning fromn sunset to sunset. This they termed lilai, from liladh, to turn round, to turn any way; as go ros lil, from the beginning of that turn or day, from thence forward; ro ril an foraimn dhe, they turned his name, i.e. they gave him a nick-name; name, i.e. they gave him a nick-name; and hence lile, the flower called turn-cap lily; and pursued closely, through windings and turnings, round and about. Lilai was at lentgth corrupted to la, Ii, lavi, a day; plural, lavina a laoth*, whence the Greek
 geneth-lion, a birth day; and the Ehiopic lathath a day; as in wmathath wa lathath years and days. (Scalig. Emend. temp. p. 324.
 This space between sunset:and sunset was again divided into iuglh, labour or day; whence an iugh, t:his day, from Chaldean yaga, to labolur; and hence it was named dua, du, dae, dia, words betokening labour, and also light. Greek 

labour; Chal. Duah, languid; which the pcilosophic Druids named also jfigh-in t,, or a turn of faigh or faic, the horizoin (Arabic flak, the horizon and among the poets the world (Gol.) which poetic:ally signities the day,. at the end of w. hich man laid himself down to noiche or nuiche, rest; Chaldean nouch, rest, firom nacha, to cease from labour; wherace cornhhniug/, rest in a house or dwelling, Iiindostau ; comh a house, Chaldean chora ; and the sun nocht, niiacht, that is, descended below the horizon; whence niacchatar, the lower lart of the globe, in the former chapter; and hence nochl, the night.
 And God called the day yom, i. e. the hustler, the time of action and of labour, and the darkness he called laila, Arabic leil, and there was evening, and there was morning on the first day, Gen. i. 3. Hence iom in Irishis prefixed to nouns to signify action; as from raidh, motion, iomruidh to put in, motion; lan, full, iom-lanadh, to fill, &c.
 'The mode of reckoning time from nacht, the night, or descent of the sun, was practised by all the eastern nations. The Egyptians began their dayat midnight; from them Hippocrates introduced that way of reckoning into Astronomy, and Copernicus and others have followed him, because the  disappearance of the sun happened at different hours, according to the seasons. This method prevails also in Great Britain, France, Spain, and most part of Europe. T'he African Numidians did the same. (Bochart vol. i.p. 1184). But in several parts of Germany they still begin their days at sun-setting, and reckon on till it sets again. Nutt night, the civil day (lhre.) Caesar says of the Gauls; they determine the duration of time, not by the numbeer of the days but of the nights.
 The Jews also began their Nychthemeron at sun-setting; but then they divided it into twice txelve hours, as we do, reckoning twelve for the day, be it long or short, and twelve for the night: so that their hours continually varying with the day and night, the hours of the day were longer than those of the night for one half year, and the contrary the other: whence their hours are called temporary: those at the time of the equinoxes became equal, because then those of the day and night are so.
Hence the space of fourteen days is called a fortnight ; but the Irish still preserve the original word la, a night  as ccathar la deag, fourteen nights, a fortnight. All which tend to confirm the words of the inspired penman Moses, as quoted in the preceding paragraph. But to what extravagant and wicked ideas has not this text carried the idolatrous phlosopher! The Chinese begin their days at midnight, because, say they, the chaos was unfolded at that hour. Hesiod says that chaos was the son of Erebus, and night the mother of the Gods: and that is the reason the day is reckoned from midnight, as if to perpetuate the remembrance of the renovation of the world, says a modern French plhilosopher, half Brahmin, half Christian.

OF GREATER CYCLES.
 The fragments of Irish Astronomy abound with names for cycles, periods, &c, which admit of the strongest proof, whence thie Hibernian Drunids drew their knowledge of Astronomy.

 1. BAR. The cycle of a Month whence Gion-bar or Gionvar, January; Faoi-bhar, February, and hentce September, October, &c. And this is probably the Ilindoo war, a day, signifyig a revolution of the sun; Eswara, the cyclic Isa, the moon. (Eas, in Irish the moon. Bar, a month, proceeds firom the Chaldee, bara, to renewr, applied to the renewal of the; moon, synonymous to Chudas
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