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The Religion of the Ancient Celts (1911)

Chapter 16: Sacrifice and Prayer

by

J. A. MacCulloch

The Celts offered human victims on the principle of a life for a life, or to propitiate the gods, or in order to divine the future from the entrails of the victim. We shall examine the Celtic custom of human sacrifice from these points of view first.

Names Used in this Section

The Semites

Marseilles 

Taranis 

Teutates 

Esus 

Diodorus 

Strabo

Varro 

Tacitus

druidarum religionem diræ immanitatis

Dio Cassius

Dindsenchas

Cromm Cruaich

Dr. Joyce

Nemedian 

Fomorians 

Fair of Taillte

Perseus and Andromeda

Becuma

S. Oran

S. Columba

Vortigern

Emain Macha

Pausanias 

Ammianus and Livy

Cúchulainn

Conall Cernach

Emer 

oppidum 

Dayak

Poseidonius 

Artemis 

Mallius

Gairloch 

S. Maelrubha

Eilean Maree (Maelrubha)

Eilean mo righ

Eilean a Mhor Righ

Sir Arthur Mitchell

Brianniul

Gruagach

Compiègne

Artemidorus 

Deiotaurus 

Dalan 

Mider

Imbas Forosnai

Filé 

Teinm Laegha

Cétnad

taghairm 

baile

fidlanna

 

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