Monday, May 8, 2017

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: DruidsLegendsScarsAlphabetsCountries

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

Sunday, May 7, 2017

R: Master Druidic Reference Books


A work in progress:



Last update 03/02/2019 :23:55 EST. New Books marked  
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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  "C
raeftgemot 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 historyThere 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
books.google.com

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
books.google.com 
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
Books.google.com


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.
books.google.com

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
OCR Books.Google.com
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: DruidsLegendsScarsAlphabetsCountries



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. "


Saturday, May 6, 2017

R: Druidic Robes and Colors




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: 

 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






Wednesday, May 3, 2017

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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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Druid's Traids or Warriors' triplet


Of the poetry which appears to have been used in their worship, although we have not specimens extant, still we may form some idea from what remains of ancient Bardic verse. The most ancient metre employed by the Druids is supposed to be that which is now generally termed the " Warriors' triplet." It is a stanza composed of three lines, each line consisting of seven syllables, and rhyming in the last.
In the first two lines the Druids described some objects that were visible in nature, or actions that were well known to every one; and in the third introduced some precept of morality.
Here is a translation of a few of these verses.

" Snow a robe o'er hamlets flings,
 In the wood the raven sings :
Too much sleep no profit brings.

 "See the forest white with snows.
Hark, the storm of winter blows :
Nature beyond learning goes.

 " Fair the moon's resplendent bow,
 Shining o'er the mountain's snow :
Peace the wicked never know.

 " Mid the snow green woodbines rise ;
All are bound by Nature's ties ;
Anger dwells not with the wise."

Ref. P136
THE HOME VISITOR and DISTRICT COMPANION. an Illustrated Magazine,
EDITED BY THE REV. P. B. BOWER, M.A.
NEW SERIES.  VOL. IX. 1882

Warrior's Song)

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