Celtic Mythology and Religion, with Chapters Upon Druid Circles and Celtic Burial

Celtic Mythology and Religion, with Chapters Upon Druid Circles and Celtic Burial
Author: Alexander Macbain
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781298562203

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Celtic Mythology and Religion

Celtic Mythology and Religion
Author: Alexander Macbain
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781528365666

Excerpt from Celtic Mythology and Religion: With Chapters Upon Druid Circles and Celtic Burial Ness Burgh School Board, and thereafter was officially connected with the Secondary Department of the Inverness High Public School. In 1901 his Uni versity of Aberdeen honoured him with the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1905 Mr. Arthur J. Balfour, then Prime Minister, in consideration of his great services to Celtic, and specially Gaelic, philology, history and literature, recommended him to the King for a Civil List Pension of 90, as from Ist April of that year. Two years later he died suddenly in Stirling, where he had gone on business during the Easter vacation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries

The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries
Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 570
Release: 1911
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.

Celtic Mythology

Celtic Mythology
Author: Hourly History
Publisher: Hourly History
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2016-10-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1537584359

The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people “...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.” This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well – for it is a complicated history with the earliest written records destroyed by the marauding Vikings. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Arrival of the Tuatha dé Danann ✓ Hibernia ✓ The Main Gods of the Celtic Pantheon ✓ Celtic Life and Rituals ✓ Sources of Celtic Mythology ✓ The Effect of Christianity and Beliefs and Superstitions The oral tradition harks back to 4000BCE and is a compilation of myths and cultures of many different peoples including the Indo-Iranians, Slavs, Greeks, Germans, Austrians and finally, the Gauls, who washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle. Whatever aspect of this rich, mystical and lavishly embellished heritage you would like to investigate further you will find the author has supplied a marker to guide you on your way.

Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry

Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
Author: Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0007555830

Druidry and Wicca, also known as "the Craft", are the two great streams of the Western Pagan tradition. Both traditions originated in the British Isles, and both are now experiencing a renaissance all over the world, as more and more people seek a spirituality rooted in a love of nature.