Download or read book The Druids written by Peter Berresford Ellis and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Druids emerge as the intellectual caste of ancient Celtic society. They were the doctors, the lawyers, the ambassadors, the advisers to kings. They also had a religious function. Ellis describes the special Druidic training, their philosophy, their belief in auguries, and their intriguing origins. The Roman description of the Druids, he shows, was the bellicose propaganda of an empire anxious to rob them of their power in the Celtic territories.