Druids

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believed in that same group of gods, they were organized into tribes. They also believed in an afterlife when you die. They believed once you are dead you are transported to the Otherworld by the god Bile. That your life continued in this location mush as it had before death. The believed that the soul of a person was immortal
(Spence 91). , past and present celebrate a series of fire-festivals, on the first of each of four months, dancing around a bonfire. Each would start at sunset and last for three days, most of the bonfire would be built on hilltops, and couples would take turns jumping over or run between the bonfires. Some examples of Druid festivals are Samhain: festival for the dead, Imbolc: The Return of the Light, Belataine: Fires of Bel, and Lughnasad: The feast of light.
The are said to have practiced human sacrifices the Romans recorded that the sacrificed condemned criminals. The Romans also wrote that such victims were tied into a huge wicker man shaped effigies ...

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