The Druids Are a Political Class in Celtic Culture

The druids are a religious and political class in celtic culture. They are basically in charge of all religious observance. Any time you've got a problem with your family, if you have nicked my horse then we go to a druid. The romans were really freaked out by druids - they genuinely found them extremely uncomfortable. And also the reason that the romans hated them quite so much, or possibly one of the reasons that they gave for hating them as quite so much was that they did human sacrifices.

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