Celtic Druidism Beliefs?

i need to know the following about this religion:
their symbol
5 key philosophies
where the religion in found mainly
brief history/origins
1 common myth
and some cool facts
and i need the website where u got Ur info
please and thank you!
Ive been researching this for 2 days and am totally confused about this religion!
what would you say are the 5 most important beliefs?

One common myth is that they were peaceful hippie friends of nature. They were responsible for sacrificing the bog people. Quite the nasty and violent sort also.

Procrasturbation FAIL.

You might look up Hells Warlock on Answers. He claims to be a hereditary Druid.

Also, I have found books by Douglas Monroe (the 21 Lessons of Merlyn and the Lost Books of Merlyn) to be exceptionally helpful with my own research into Druidism.

The books are published by Llewellyn Worldwide.

Present day people don't really know the answers you seek. Druids were the spiritually wise people of the Celts. Some would call them priests. They were also advisers to leaders (chieftains or kings). (The information that was written about them, was written by Romans who didn't particularly like the Celtic Druids and considered them to be barbaric <pagan>).

There were three categories of druids:
Healers and Seers (called Ovates) - tended to wounds and illnesses and predicted the future -- determining best time to plant and harvest for example
Bards -- Celts did not write stories, they were passed along from one generation to the next orally through story-telling. Bards were also historians.
Druids -- philosophers and teachers and advisers to the rulers and judges

There are many, many books written on the role of the Druids in Celtic culture. It is believed that the stone circles in the UK were not built by Celts, though they used them (though on that topic there is some controversy). The Celts believed in many gods and goddesses -- theirs was a polytheistic religion.

However, the following web-sites can give you a good enough start:
http://ezinearticles.com/?History-of-the-Celtic-Druids&id=1477679
http://www.google.ca/search?q=Celtic+Druids&hl=en&safe=active&client=fi refox-a&hs=1ur&sa=G&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&channel=s&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=Yn2IS7z8C4 aXtgf_0_DJDw&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11 &ved=0CC0Q5wIwCg
http://www.britannia.com/wonder/michell2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid

Some people are reviving Druidism, but really, we don't know how Druids really performed certain rites etc. Druidism today is a paganGanew/revived pagan) religion.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/druid.htm
http://www.celticholidays.ca/

I've been informally researching Celts and Druids since ... around early 1980s and I don't know about the religion either!

Druidism is NOT the same religion as Wicca (Witchcraft).

For modern druids, the most common symbol is either the aw en: /|\ or the druid's soggily (two st aves across a circle/wreath, looking something like this: (||) Of course, that's not terribly consistent, since there's no real agreement. A lot of folks don't really use symbols at all, or just use some sort of knot work. There's no known symbol from the ancient druids.

Common philosophies would involve a belief in the gods, the ancestors, and the nature spirits. A cosmology that involved the three realms (sky, land, sea). A belief in honor, loyalty, courage, etc. Try looking up Celtic Triads, they're a bunch of sayings that should give you a better idea as to what they considered important.

In ancient times, druids were found wherever the Celtic tribes lived, so, western Europe, mostly focusing on the area that's now the UK. For modern times, North America and UK seem to be the biggest hotbeds.

Best bet for history would be to hit the Viki articles, or to look up the reading list at iambs.org. They're pretty hefty stuff - mostly archeology and anthropology, but they've got good info.

As an aside - *don't* trust the books by Douglas Monroe ("21 Lessons of Merlyn", etc). No matter how much people like them, they are factually inaccurate and in some cases, dangerous (such as advocating people ingest mistletoe, which is poisonous.) Your best bet is to rely on the more academic books (or books that cite the academic books) - there is (sadly) a large contingent of people who feel it's perfectly okay to make money by selling fiction and calling it authentic Celtic beliefs, which makes it very difficult to believe everything you read.