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Color illustration of five ancient Celtic druids in white robes and green wreaths, one seated and gesturing upward, surrounded by trees with ritual objects on the ground. Engraving by W. Walker after Susanna Duncombe shows two hooded druids in robes walking under a tree along a rugged English coastline, each holding branches. Julius Caesar Black and white woodcut from 1832 showing a giant wicker figure filled with people, surrounded by druids and onlookers, illustrating a reported druidic human sacrifice ritual. Roman attack on druids Three druids in white robes stand outdoors, with one holding a staff and gesturing toward gold vessels, a serpent, and a painted curtain hanging from a tree. Handcolored engraving by Verico. Arthur Pendragon, dressed in ceremonial robes, leads a group of people in a ritual at Stonehenge during the Winter Solstice celebration, with the stone monument visible behind them. Roman soldiers attacking Druids
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Artist's imagination of druids
“Druids, Or British Priests,” color plate from Pictures of English History,...
© The Print Collector—Hulton ArchiveGetty Images
Druids in England
Two Druids walking in the English countryside, 18th-century engraving.
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, marble sculpture by Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci, c....
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913, 14.40.676, www.metmuseum.org
Woodcut of a wicker man
Julius Caesar claimed that druids conducted human fire sacrifices in large human...
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Roman attack on druids
An illustration of the Roman army's reported massacre of druids on the Isle of Anglesey,...
© Lilo M. Feldman—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Druids in the modern imagination
An illustration of druids in white robes with religious paraphernalia, hand-colored...
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Modern druidry
King Arthur Pendragon, modern druidic leader of the Loyal Arthurian Warband, leading...
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Roman soldiers attacking Druids
Roman soldiers attacking Druids in the 1st century ce,...
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