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    Druid

    Priest of Celtic religion

    A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts. While they were reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by doctrine from recording their knowledge in written form. Their beliefs and practices are attested in some detail by their contemporaries from other cultures, such as the Romans and the Greeks. The earliest known references to the druids date to the 4th century BC. The oldest detailed description comes from Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. They were described by other Roman writers such as Cicero, Tacitus, and Pliny the Elder. Following the Roman invasion of Gaul, the druid orders were suppressed by the Roman government under the 1st-century CE emperors Tiberius and Claudius, and had disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century. Wikipedia

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    A druid was a member of the high-ranking priestly class in ancient Celtic cultures. Druids were religious leaders as well as legal authorities, adjudicators, lorekeepers, medical professionals and political advisors. Druids left no written accounts. While they were reported to have been literate, they are believed to have been prevented by ...
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  4. britannica.com

    Druid, member of the learned class among the ancient Celts. They acted as priests, teachers, and judges. The earliest records of Druids date from the 3rd century BCE. Very little is known for certain about the Druids, who kept no records of their own. Julius Caesar is the principle source of knowledge about the Druids.
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  5. worldhistory.org

    The Status of Druids. The word druid derives from druides/druidae in Latin, druad in Old Irish, and dryw in Welsh. Few scholars today agree with the traditional view that the name derives from a combination of two or more Celtic words meaning 'knowledge', 'oak' or 'knowledge of the oak' (dru-vid-es).As repositories of the community's accumulated knowledge - passed on orally by elders to ...
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    A group of Druids at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England The Grand Druid of Brittany Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec stands at the centre surrounded by the Archdruid of Wales and the Grand Bard of Cornwall, at the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the Gorseth of Brittany in Hanvec, year 1999.. Druidry, sometimes termed Druidism, is a modern spiritual or religious movement that promotes the ...
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