The worst enemy of a Celtic king?
Starvation.
Not only because one has to endure the grievances of his suffering tribe, but above all because the sovereign ends up paying with his person if the harvests do not improve.
The Druids cut off his head, then buried his body in a bog.
To attract the attention and goodwill of the gods.
We thus look on the screen, with a mixture of fear and fascination, at Croghan's man, a dismembered mummy of a dark brown color whose manicured hands testify to his high extraction.
In the unpublished documentary entitled
The Druids, priests of the Celtic peoples
, the German director Manfred Uhlig summarizes the state of our knowledge on these figures popularized by Asterix and literature, about which we actually know little.
According to ancient writers, they predicted the future in the convulsions of their victims.
These authors have recounted in great detail the bloody rituals of the Celtic populations,
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