Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus

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If a house can be haunted, what about the land it sits on? Are there places on this earth

where, let's call it energies? places where energies might converge, places where power

collects and surges, where the membrane between worlds is thinner. Maybe one of those places is in

Ireland and County Wexford. Things have happened on a patch of land there. Tragic things, mysterious things. Some say it's all

superstition, but others say it's as real as you and me, as real as that terrible storm, the one that

sent ships spinning to the bottom of the sea, and a stranger to the shore.

A stranger, they say, who turned out to be the devil himself.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

I'm trying. You got a small beam of light against the mirror. True. Weird.

Stuff. You hear the word dream. weird stuff.

You hear the word druid, and you might be picturing a group of people in hooded robes standing in a circle in the forest at night, worshipping nature spirits.

The real story of the druids is a whole lot more complex. For starters,

we don't really know all that much about the origins of the druids. The ancient Celtic people

didn't have a written language, which means most of what we know about the ancient druids

comes from the stories and accounts told by others. And in this case, the others tended to be the ancient Romans.

The Romans dearly loved committing their thoughts to paper.

And it's Julius Caesar himself who tells us that.

The druids are engaged in things sacred, conduct the public and private sacrifices,

and interpret all matters of religion.

Caesar went on to note that the druids were also keenly focused on valor and deeply engaged

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