Much has been written about witchcraft, the "new age", paganism, the Celtic religion, Celtic mythology, the druids and the Arthurian mysteries. However, there is little about the shadowy pagan gods and goddesses of Britain's Old Religion - Britain's pagan heritage. This book fills that gap with new, up-to-date material drawn from the latest research in archaeology and folklore. Organizing Britain and Ireland into seven different historial regions, this book takes readers on a mystery tour through 50 little-known places to visit where the magic of the Old Religion survives, places which can be visited, touched and felt. Subjects include sacred wells, springs and rivers, venerated trees, the cult of stones, Celtic heads and screaming skulls, pagan festivals and curious customs and traditions, pagan temples and holy places, and Christianization of the pagan cuts.
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Interesting information but weak analysis,
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All in all, I thought this book was OK and contained a fair bit of interesting information and stories but I found the analysis fairly weak. On the positive side, the author avoids many of the problems that characterize some of the new-age material. The author discusses cases of human sacrifices and the like without being overly starry-eyed.On the negative side, the book is clearly written with Wiccans in mind. One choice "observation" the author makes is that all Irish gods were patterned on In Dagda. This sort of thinking ignores well over half a century of research into Indo-European comparative mythology. All in all, Wiccans will probably like this book a lot, and the rest of us will try to sift through to find stories of value.
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