Recent evidence that Druids committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice perhaps on a massive scale add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.

Julius Caesar alleged that the Celtic Druids practiced human sacrifice using a wicker man - a wooden effigy - which was burnt in devotion to the gods. The association between Druids and ritual ...

The first academic effort to survey and understand the monument was made around 1640 by John Aubrey. He declared Stonehenge the work of Druids. This view was greatly popularized by ...

We are also told that they had to attend every sacrifice to the many gods of the Celts, and that they practiced human sacrifice. Caesar tells us that the druids we very highly thought of, and said ...

Although Druids are believed to have existed throughout Celtic societies in Europe during the Iron Age, almost all the surviving evidence about them is found in the writings of later Roman authors.

The druids were also partial to human sacrifice, as recreated in 1973 horror movie The Wicker Man. Cesar recounts that they “make images of enormous size, with the limbs woven from osiers [willows].

The Druids of Celtic Britain are remembered as mystical holy men, holding the secrets of nature. But ancient sources - including Julius Caesar himself - accused them of human sacrifice, even ...

Human sacrifice was practiced. When the druids of Anglesey were attacked by the Romans in AD 61, their altars, according to the Roman historian Tacitus, 'were drenched with the blood of prisoners'.