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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Druids"”.
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The crown of madness.
… three different factions: Aarden Hall, the druids, and the Undying. The primary protagonist of the Aarden Hall plotline is a young monster hunter named Lucius. He is thrust into the position of vying for power in a mysterious semi-democratic competition for the Crown of Madness, a crown that …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
… influence on medieval Irish depictions of druids. The first section catalogues claims about druids from works of Classical ethnography which were potentially available to the medieval Irish, concluding that there is minimal evidence for direct influence from Classical ethnographic texts on …
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The Celts: an ancient exonym for a modern mind-set?
… their vision of the past peopled with Celts and Druids. This exposition examines relevant classical and present day texts concerning history, language and linguistics, literature, archaeology and genetics sources outlining essential arguments particular to both perspectives, collating …
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Friendly societies in the rural East Riding, 1830-1912
… and labour historians. Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, Shepherds and Gardeners with their ritual, regalia, and secrecy imitative of Freemasonry, emerged as benefit societies in industrial Yorkshire and Lancashire in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. The orders exploded into …
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Sensation, Sacred Landscapes, and the Sense of the Past in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1760
… past from the supposed temples and groves of the druids to the ruins of medieval abbeys. These were places at which religiously inflected sensations were thought to have been felt before in idolatrous worship. Moreover, with the Act of Toleration in 1689, Anglicanism was increasingly coming under …