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To: longnshort who wrote (1261140)	9/11/2020 4:47:18 AM
From: pocotrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

your pretending to be some heathen?, do you practice human sacrifice and bay at the moon

To: longnshort who wrote (1261140)	9/11/2020 4:49:32 AM
From: pocotrader	Respond to of 1578501

Mistletoe and the moonAncient sources provide some tantalizing hints to the things that the druids held in great importance. In one passage, Pliny the Elder (who lived almost 2,000 years ago) talks about the importance of mistletoe and of the fifth day of the moon. He said that mistletoe “is gathered with rites replete with religious awe. This is done more particularly on the fifth day of the moon, the day which is the beginning of their months and years, as also of their ages …” (translation by John Bostock). He also talks about the importance of animal sacrifice and fertility to the druids. They “bring thither two white bulls, the horns of which are bound then for the first time. Clad in a white robe the priest ascends the tree, and cuts the mistletoe with a golden sickle, which is received by others in a white cloak. They then immolate the victims" while offering prayers, wrote Pliny the Elder. “It is the belief with them that the mistletoe, taken in drink, will impart [fertility] to all animals that are barren, and that it is an antidote for all poisons.” Nuts

To: longnshort who wrote (1261140)	9/11/2020 6:20:46 AM
From: Mongo2116	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1578501

no health care eat chit and die.....SIGNED THE GOP

To: longnshort who wrote (1261140)	9/11/2020 6:58:49 AM
From: pocotrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

The end of druidismAs Christianity spread throughout Europe, druidism gradually faded away. Cunliffe notes that druids were still present in Ireland in the eighth century A.D. but in a much reduced form. “Druids are now seen to be the makers of love-potions and casters of spells but little else,” Cunliffe writes. “The mood is captured by one 8th-century hymn that asks for God’s protection from the spells of women, blacksmiths and druids!” Druidism would fade away during the Middle Ages, but would be revived in modern times, albeit about a millennium after the ancient form became extinct.