What are some good books on ancient European Druidism?

I'm agnostic, but Druidism is of interest to me. What are some good books on Druidism that focus specifically on Druidism instead of Paganism in general?

"The Druids" by Peter Berresford Ellis

Because the Celts were essentially non-literate, we really don't know very much about what the ancient Druids were actually doing. But one of the best sources we have is the Caith Maigh Tiureadh, and one of the most useful translations of it is The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition by Steve Blamires.

There is little known about the real Druidism. They left no written records. All that is really known is what was written by Romans like Ceasar. The modern Druidism is reconstructed.

There is a paucity of information on the ancient Druids.

Actually the only historical accounts of them are a couple of very, very brief passages in books by a handful of ancient Greek and Roman writers. The most famous is by Julius Caesar who mentions them in a description of his war campaign against the Gauls.

Not enough information in total even to fill a page.

Everything else is modern-day fabrication. Its rather disappointing, I know.

The late Professor Stuart Piggot wrote a book on the druids.

http://www.amazon.com/Druids-Ancient-Peoples-Places/dp/0500273634

Greetings!

Julius Caesar, translated by Anne & Peter Wiseman. The Battle for Gaul. Chatto & Windus (London), 1980..

Alexander Carmichael. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic. Floris Books, 2004.

Philip Carr-Gomm. Druid Mysteries. Rider, 2002. Originally published as Elements of the Druid Tradition
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The Rebirth of Druidry. Thorsons, 2003.

. The Druid Way, Thoth Books, 2006.
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What Do Druids Believe? Granta, 2006.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, University of California Press, 2000.

Nora K. Chadwick. The Celts. Penguin, 1985.

Imbas Forosnai. Oxford University Press, 1935.

Peter Crawford. The Living Isles: A Natural History of Britain and Ireland. BBC Pubs, 1991. .

Barry Cunliffe. The Celtic World : An Illustrated History of the Celtic Race, Their Culture, Customs and Legends. Greenwich House, 1986.

H. R. Ellis Davidson. Myth and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions. Syracuse University Press, 1989.

Guy Deutscher, The Unfolding of Language, Henry Holt & Co., 2005.

Georges Dum?zil. The Destiny of a King. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

The Plight of a Sorcerer. University of California Press OOP.. The Stakes of the Warrior. University of California Press, 1983

. . Archaic Roman Religion : With an Appendix on the Religion of the Etruscans. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Mitra-Varuna : An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. Zone Books, 1996.

Loki. Flammarion, 1997.

Mircea Eliade. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton University Press, 1972.


A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1 - From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries. University of Chicago Press, 1981.

_______. A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2 - From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity. University of Chicago Press, 1985.


Patterns in Comparative Religion, University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Peter Berresford Ellis. The Druids. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995.


Chronicles of the Celts. Carroll & Graf, 1999.

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Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature. Eerdsman, 1995.

The Celts: A History. Carroll & Graf, 2003. A revised edition of a solid work.

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison. The Druids' Alphabet. Earth Religions Press, 2003.

The Solitary Druid: A Practitioner's Guide, Citadel Press, 2005.

Patrick K. Ford. The Mabonogi and Other Welsh Medieval Tales. University of California Press, 1977.

Mara Freeman, Kindling the Celtic Spirit. Harper San Francisco, 2001. She also has a CD of Celtic Spirit Meditations.

Philip Freeman, War, Women, and Druids, University of Texas Press, 2002.



Paul Freidrich. Proto-Indo-European Trees. University of Chicago, 1970.

Jeffrey Gantz. Early Irish Myths and Sagas. Penguin, 1988.

Mirija Gimbutas. The Balts. Praeger, 1968.

The Slavs, Praeger, 1971.

Miranda Green. The Gods of the Celts, Revised Edition. Sutton Publishing, 2004.


Celtic Goddesses: Warriors, Virgins, and Mothers. George Braziller, 1996.

The Celtic World. Routledge, 1995.

John Michael Greer. The DruidryHandbook. Weiser, 2006.

A World Full of Gods. ADF Publishing, 2006.

Godfrey Higgins. Celtic Druids. Kessinger Pub., 1997. .

Ellen Evert Hopman. Tree Medicine Tree Magic. Phoenix Pub. Co., 1991.

A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year. Destiny Books, 1994.

Ellen Evert Hopman and Lawrence Bond. Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today (originally published as People of the

Ronald Hutton. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Their Nature and Legacy. Blackwell Publishers, 1993.


The Rise and Fall of Merry England: the Ritual Year 1400?1700. Oxford University Press, 1994.

The Stations of the Sun: a History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Witches, Druids, and King Arthur. Hambledon and London, 2003. A book of excellent

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