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Every year, crowds of people, usually led by bearded men and white cloaks, gather a stone

hench to commemorate the summer solstice.

These are the druids, people who continue the traditions and practices of our mysterious ancestors who inhabited pre-Christian Britain.

But Stonehenge was built a few thousand years before the Druids who were Celts even came to Britain.

So tying them to Stonehenge is a bit like a group of foreign tourists showing up at Adrian's wall today and

laying some kind of claim to it. The ancient Druids may or may not have gravitated

towards the place, but it wasn't built by them and it wasn't designed for their purposes.

So who are these modern ruins and do they have any connection to their ancient namesake's. Within England, details of the ancient

druids are scarce. In fact, archaeologist Miranda Old House Green has stated that our richest textual sources come from none other than

Julius Caesar.

He claimed the druids practice human sacrifice, confining unfortunate souls in a huge wicked construction designed to look like a man before setting it on fire.

His recollections inspired the Hamahora Classic, the Wickerman. However, there are

practicing druids today who say that demise of the ancient records has been

greatly exaggerated and in fact they have plenty of verifiable evidence to

establish who the Druids were what they believed and how their broader society

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