whaz up wit that druidz n stuff

[infernaldemise]

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[jennasu]

They have also been tied to a lot of the bodies found over the last 30-40 years in the bogs in the area.
You know, human sacrifice and all...

thats interesting.....

[infernaldemise]

do you happen to have any articles or referenes to any of thoes instances? i am doing a bit of persoanl study on them.

Re: thats interesting.....

[jennasu]

Not off the top of my head... I used to read about it at school and in library books. Amazingly preserved, though....

here it be homey gee

[infernaldemise]

The best archaeological data supporting Celtic human sacrifice is the body of the man placed in Lindow bog in the first or second century C.E. We actually have the body (well, most of it) so well preserved that scientists were able to analyze his stomach contents to discover his last meal (a partially scorched grain cake). Lindow man was almost certainly a ritual sacrifice; he was strangled, hit on the head, and had his throat cut, in quick order, then surrendered to the bog. This pattern fits the "three-fold" death referred to in medieval Irish tales. What's more, the man seems to have been of high social rank, and a willing victim. There are also other bog burials (the Tollund Man bog body in Denmark is very similar) in various places in Europe, as well as in grain storage pits and shafts in Britain, that, once they were no longer used for storage, had human bodies thrown in them, for instance at the Danebury hillfort. While Anne Ross in Pagan Celtic Britain is positive that the Danebury bodies were ritual sacrifices, most scholars