Witches, druids and followers of the Norse gods in police forces throughout the country have persuaded the Home Office to let them set up a support group.

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Crowds flock to solstice sunrise - in photos

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A pagan protester named King Arthur was evicted from Stonehenge yesterday after staging a 10 month live-in protest at the ancient stone circle about access rights. Druid 'King Arthur Pendragon' - formerly known John Rothwell, 55 - set up camp on the edge of the site last June.

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Recent evidence that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.

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Everything You Need To Know About St. Patrick

If you're a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff.

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I'm not alone. In Britain, stage productions of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" are a holiday staple, for good reason.

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'It was the early hours and I'd been to a ceremony at Stonehenge. Normally, I'd change out of my robes before coming home, but it was cold, so I didn't bother. The milkman took one terrified look at me and scuttled off to his milkfloat as fast as his legs could carry him.

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However lovely a new house is, sometimes it doesn't feel quite like home. But when a wealthy pagan couple felt something was missing in their upmarket suburban estate, they soon fixed the problem by installing their very own stone circle.

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If variety is the spice of YOUR life, then you simply must find yourself a druidic lover today. While I'm sure warlocks, and mages, and priests, can light your fire too, nothing beats a druid for sheer, er, flexibility.

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As sacred priests, their duties included teaching, law enforcement and possibly even burning people to death in giant wicker men. Druids dominated British culture with their mysterious magical rites in the centuries before the Roman invasion.

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Archeologists have discovered what may prove to be a burial grave of a mystical, priestly class of elite individuals called Druids among Celtic societies in Britain.

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Druids belong to the realm of myth -- archaeologists have never been able to prove their existence. But now researchers in England have uncovered the grave of a powerful, ancient healer. Was he a druid?...

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Historical records tell of a mystical, priestly and learned class of elite individuals called Druids among Celtic societies in Britain, but there has been no archaeological evidence of their existence. Until, perhaps, now.

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Protests against the closure of post offices in rural areas of the United Kingdom are quite common, but the latest has affected a most unusual clientele: druids.

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Neo-druids have revived the tradition of Lammas Games: The event marked the first harvest and was designed to "harness the energy of the earth".

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An interesting old banner has been rediscovered in Somerset: The silk banner of the Bridgwater Equitable Independent Druids is complete with carrying poles, brass spearheads and silk cords in its original wooden box.

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More than 20,000 people braved heavy rain and clouds of cannabis smoke to celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge. The ancient monument rang to the sounds of drumming and a saxophone as the Sun rose unseen above the Heel Stone at 4:58 a.m.

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SOME would call it the Devil's work. Two ancient religions have locked horns in a bizarre "freedom of speech" row that is echoing around the corridors of one of Scotland's oldest academic institutions.

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For me, this doorway also opens into one of the great themes of California's bohemian spirituality: the endless interplay between sense and spirit, artful partying and higher consciousness.

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Stonehenge was the Lourdes of its day, to which diseased and injured ancient Britons flocked seeking cures for their ailments, according to a new theory.

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