Druids have strongly influenced modern culture through the rise of modern Druidry, as well as fiction and fantasy. Despite lack of conclusive historical evidence about druids, early modern historians (antiquarians) and Classical sources helped shape modern perceptions, for instance linking druids with Stonehenge, although archaeologists find no evidence for that connection. Fraternal and esoteric groups in Britain gave rise to modern Druidry in the 20th century, which continues as a new religious movement that is closely associated with modern Paganism. In fiction and fantasy worlds, depictions of druids include Panoramix, or Getafix, in the Asterix comic series, along with druids as priests of nature in Dungeons & Dragons and shape-shifters in World of Warcraft.
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