DRUIDS

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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DRUIDS, n.  Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which
  did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. 
  Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith.  Pliny says
  their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as
  Persia.  Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to
  Britain.  Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have


  obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his
  talent for human sacrifice was considerable.
      Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing
  of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents.  They
  were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently
  catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England --
  Dissenters.