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   XPost: soc.culture.scottish, soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: nospam@this.addy   
      
   An Coibhi Drui wrote:   
   > On May 11, 6:17 pm, "1X2Willows" wrote:   
   >> conwaycaine wrote:   
   >>> "An Coibhi Drui"  wrote   
   >>   
   >>> Yeah, the Druids looked on as the pre-Christians built Newgrange!   
   >>   
   >>> **And Stonehenge was built long before the first Mistletoe bough was   
   >>> ever cut with a golden sickle   
   >>   
   >> Trivia interlude: Loranthus Europaeus is not even native to the   
   >> British Isles and gold certainly too soft to cut it. Said famous   
   >> historical account refers to the Continent and most likely sickles   
   >> of highly polished bronze. Viscum Alba, while related, doesn't   
   >> possess those legendary healing   
   >> powers which are being utilized in modern cancer treatment among   
   >> other uses. And yes, there weren't any Druids by this name around   
   >> when Stonehenge was built and far less at the time of construction of   
   >> Newgrange and other structures erected by the Bell-Beaker culture.   
   >   
   > Again, I beg to differ , there were NO Druids around in continental   
   > Europe prior to 500 BC at the earliest ,   
      
   Make that prior to 1500-1800 BCE   
      
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