FOLK HEARTH

The Druids

History, Language, And Reinvention

Druwayu Is Not Druidry

Modern Druidry is at the best understood as both a product of Roman-era mythologizing and a modern reconstructive fiction in terms of continuity claims, while some branches still existing as a real meaningful contemporary tradition admit this honestly. It is not a continuous Iron Age institution and most modern Druids are honest about this.

There are also a lot of self proclaimed "Druids" that are not so honest with themselves or others about such matters and more or less through whatever "feels right" to them and proclaim it authentic and ancient when in reality its neither historical or accurate outside of their own heads and the fantasy fulfillment nonsense of wanna be types.

HALLOWEEN WASN'T SAMHAIN

Everything You Know About Halloween Is Wrong

The familiar story that Halloween is an ancient pagan festival called Samhain, barely disguised by Christianity is not history, but rather a popular fiction that actually began as more of an anti-Catholic move, especially with the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. But it gets spun further out of sync with reality and actual history. Yet, what is often pushed now as if it were original and authentic is complete nonsense. It is a modern invention built from speculation, mistranslated, and repetition. What follows is not a reinterpretation of the past, but a correction of a mistake that has been passed off as fact for over a century.

How the Idea Developed

1. Early Irish antiquarians (18th century)