@1794) An Account of Åæome Druidical Remains in DerbyÅæhire. In a Letter to the Right Honourable Frederick Montagu, F. A. S. By Hayman Rooke, EÅæq. 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
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1812)
DRUID
A SERIES OF MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.
by ADDWYN I DDRAGON, DDAWN Y DERWYDDON.
PDF and OCR 7.3mb 236 pages
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*** Note to self the opening of this is worth a blog! Also have the opening poem downloaded.
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
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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
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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.
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1827)
The Druids, a Poem
by T.E. Hankinson
of Corpus Christo College
PDF, 1mb 16 pages
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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
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@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
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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
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1841)
A Hstoric Account of IONA
From the Earlist Period
BY L. MACLEAN,
PDF and OCR 4.2mb 134 pages
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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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.
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
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) 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
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*** 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 DraĆocht 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
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.
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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
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.<<
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