What Is a Druid?

Often when the combatants are ranged face to face, and swords are drawn and spears bristling, these men come between the armies and stay the battle, just as wild beasts are sometimes held spellbound. Thus even among the most savage barbarians anger yields to wisdom, and Mars is shamed before the Muses.

Diodorus Siculus Histories c.8 BCE

In ancient times a Druid was a philosopher, teacher, counsellor and magician, the word probably meaning ‘A Forest Sage’ or ‘Strong Seer’. In modern times, a Druid is someone who follows Druidry as their chosen spiritual path, or who has entered the Druid level of training in a Druid Order.

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History of Ireland

By, Rev. Geoffrey Keating.

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Irish Wisdom Preserved in the Bible and Pyramids

By Conor MacDari

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Ireland: Ur of the Chaldees (1873)

By Anna Wilkes

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Ireland: Land of the Pharaohs – Andrew Power

Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions

By James Bonwick, 1894

WHO were the Druids? This question has agitated the minds of the learned for a long period; and various, as well as contradictory, have been the replies. Tradition preserves their memory as of a pious and superior race, prominently associated with the British Isles and France, and, in a lesser degree, with Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the lands of Scandinavia.

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