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The Story of
Druids
and Celts
Druids
The word Druid is of Celtic origin.
Druid was a title given to learned men and women possessing
"oak knowledge" (or "oak wisdom").
Not a lot is know about the Druid’s, as there is no written evidence before the Romans wrote about them, but we don’t know
if what they say is all true. Most was passed from word of mouth and stories. No one can say if they were Evil as they are
made out to be, but a lot of their ways have been adopted into today’s sacristy
What we do know is that they were priests, judges, educators, historians, doctors, seers, astronomers, and astrologers.
The Druids are concerned with divine matters; they look after public and private affairs. One Druid was in charge of all;
he would have complete control over them, many spent leaning the ways for 20 years before teaching others.
Celts
The Celts settled in Britain and Ireland by the 100s BC. Wales, Cornwall, Scotland were the main places.
The Celts had no empire. They were a mass of independent tribes or clans, free to act as they chose. Communication between
them was difficult and slow; yet in language, myth, ritual, belief, literature and art, they were one.
They were brave warlike people, their arts, crafts and rituals were handed down by word of mouth by poets who wrote, learned
about all matters of things to compose there poems on as they had no written language. Druids taught them religion.
They new
about agriculture, worked with iron and other metals, skilled with the art of weaving.
Later they learned the Greek alphabet thought trading or war to be followed by the Roman alphabet, which the Celts adapted
to be there own speech and writing but mostly they kept to word of mouth.
Rome slowly took over leaving only a few serving places, Scotland and Ireland being largely undisturbed by it all they carried
on with the old traditions of their art.
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