"Can you tell me what is Held wing day ?"
- StroppyChops
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Re: "Can you tell me what is Held wing day ?"
LOL! Google "Halloween druid sacrifice" and then choose for yourself what is contemporaneous and what is not - but be ready to filter out OTT religious mumbo jumbo.djones wrote:Could you please reference some reliable contemporaneous sources for this shocking druidophobic attack on my ancestors!StroppyChops wrote:The origins of Halloween are actually pretty evil, linked to druidic child sacrifice
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While it is accepted that the Celts practiced human sacrifice, there is little archaeological of this. Much of the reporting of Celtic excesses in this area comes from Roman sources which were politically motivated and highly exaggerated. For example:StroppyChops wrote:LOL! Google "Halloween druid sacrifice" and then choose for yourself what is contemporaneous and what is not - but be ready to filter out OTT religious mumbo jumbo.djones wrote:Could you please reference some reliable contemporaneous sources for this shocking druidophobic attack on my ancestors!StroppyChops wrote:The origins of Halloween are actually pretty evil, linked to druidic child sacrifice
According to Strabo (64/63 B.C.E. – 21 C.E. at least) in his Geography (4.1.13):"Other kinds of human sacrifices have been reported as well: some men they would shoot dead with arrows and impale in the temples."
However "there’s little or no archaeological data to support Celtic use of bows and arrows. Neither are mentioned in the medieval Irish tales, and the Irish words for bow and arrow are borrowed from Latin and Norse (Piggott 1975, 110)."
http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opini ... sacrifice/
"Contradicting the Roman sources, more recent scholarship finds that "there is little archaeological evidence" of human sacrifice by the Celts, and suggests the likelihood that Greeks and Romans disseminated negative information out of disdain for the barbarians.[34] There is no evidence of the practices Caesar described, and the stories of human sacrifice appear to derive from a single source, Poseidonius, whose claims are unsupported [35]".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice
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[34] Wells, Peter. ''The Barbarians Speak'', p. 59-60. Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 9780691089782.
[35] Ellis, Peter Berresford. ''The Ancient World of the Celts'', p. 64, 184, 187. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0760717168
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Re: "Can you tell me what is Held wing day ?"
soon it will be happy merry christmas again.
- StroppyChops
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How very dare you? Don't you know it's politically unacceptable to mention Christian (out of all religious) holidays? What are you, a liberal?frank lee bent wrote:soon it will be happy merry christmas again.
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