Memoranda of Springhead and its neighbourhood, during the primeval period [by A. J. Dunkin]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1848 Excerpt: ... The duties of legislation devolved upon the second order of Druids. It was their province to enactr expound and enforce the laws; taking cognizance of their breach--they sat as judges, either to acquit or punish, since from their decision there was no appeal.6 Criminals found guilty of the gravest offences, they condemned to be burned in osier cages; and, here may be incidentally contradicted the popular fallacy of innocent victims being offered on Druidical altars. Historical researches combined with recent discoveries, have most satisfactorily shewn that British augurs never predicted future events by the manner in which blood oozed from the palpitating forms of human sacrifices; and, that the consuming of living men by fire, with the Druids,, was entirely a judicial proceeding, and not a religious rite. In truth, execution and not sacrifice.7 cold grave," "The dark grave," "The silent grave." It is not unnatural that amongst the Celtic nations the notion should have existed that the place of eternal punishment for evil-doers was in coldness, since it formed a diametrical contrast with their belief that to be in the lightsome beams of the sua, the emblem of their religion, was happiness. But the Sun was not worshipped, as has been erroneously supposed, but only regarded by the Britons as the symbol of the Supreme Moral Light of the Universe. 6 The ceans themselves were amenable to the Druid decrees.--la feet, Dio Chris., says of the British ceans--it is the Druids who reign in reality; and the ceans, though they sit on thrones, feast in splendour, and live in palaces, are only instruments for executing their designs. 7 Much stress has been laid upon the fires seen kindled in Anglesea, to burn the Romans. But we must remember that the intrusion into "Holy ...

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