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Today’s article will be centered primarily around the Celts overall way of life. How did they dress? What were their views on things such as remarriage? And just what is the purpose of the ever-popular Celtic knot?
In the book "Celtic Magic" by D.J. Conway, we are told that "The Celts were a very clean people, using soap long before the Romans did. The Celtic men and women of Britain sometimes wore swirling blue tattoos or paintings on their bodies. All Celts played lyres and harps, loved song, music, and recitation of legends and epic adventures. They used metal or ornamented natural horns for drinking.
Children took their mother's name and daughters inherited her possessions. Virginity was not highly valued; twice the dowry was given for a woman previously married or with children. Abortion and choice or change of mate was a woman's right.
Both sexes loved jewelry: brooches decorated with gold filigree, cuttlefish shell, garnets, lapis, and other stones; buckles of gold filigree and stones; pins and linked pins with animal-style decoration; necklaces of amber, granulation and chip carving. They wore torques, pendants, bracelets, pins and necklaces. The women sometimes sewed little bells on the fringed ends of their tunics. The elaborate intertwining of their artwork was a guard against the evil eye or curses.
Celtic women painted their fingernails, reddened their cheeks with roan, darkened their eyebrows with berry juice. They wore their hair long and braided or piled up on the head. Their usual dress was a sleeved tunic tucked into a large, gathered, belted skirt or simply an ankle-length tunic with a belt.
Celtic man on the continental mainland wore trousers with a tunic, but in Britain and Ireland the men wore a thigh-high tunic and a cloak, the ever-present dagger or sword, and leather or fur foot-gear tied around the legs. Mustaches were common, and the hair shoulder length. A horned helmet indicated a powerful warrior.
In the early cultures, both men and women had huge rectangular cloaks pinned at the right shoulder. These cloaks were generally woven in bright plaids, checks or stripes. Later, they wore large hooded capes reaching to the knees.”
This concludes the History of the Celts segment of New Age 101. Hopefully you have learned something new and interesting about where quite possibly the largest contributions to modern Paganism and Wicca originated. We will be taking a brief break from the history topic this week to give tips on just where to go to find New Age supplies and others of like mind after today. Soon, though, there will be more on the history of modern New Age beliefs.
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Well the author needs to do more research because Wicca is actually witchcraft and witchcraft as we know is evil and sinful. Check out my radio show on it at
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RIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHTTTTT......and the people who come to my page to learn more about the real FACTUAL history of paganism and tips on how THEY can worship as THEY choose are going to just go BOUNDING to an online christian radio show......sure, dear..... more power to you, but I think you have the wrong forum for your soap-box.
First I would like to point out I am not religous at all be it Wicca or Christianity. Now to my main complaints, Christians as a whole have a bad habit of of throwing stones when they in fact live in glass houses. The one verse that "every good christian" seems to forget is "Judge not least ye be judged yourself"! It was never gods intention that you go around telling the masses how much they sin and what level of hell they can expect to go to. He only asked that you preach his message of love and understanding to the world. Something you and every other preacher, pastor, and priest have forgotten! I don't blame you though because scarring the crap out of people sells a lot better than love and understanding. God according to the bible is the only one who can judge and levy a sentence, so in essence you have committed the biggest sin of all by raising your self to his level as if you were an equal. I'm a little rusty but I believe the last one to do that caused hell to exist.
I love how the author is told to "do more research" as if she did not know, being a Pagan, that Wicca involves the study of Witchcraft. I also love how Shock uses his comment to promote his or her own agenda and radio show. Yes, the Bible does indeed refer to witchcraft. Exodus 22:18 " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live".Deuteronomy 18:10
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch." These passages along with others have been used to persecute Pagans throughout the history of Christianity and led to people being burned alive at the stake. Why? Simply because the Christian clergy of old did not want the competition although they practiced (and still do) what we Pagans refer to as "religious magick" . Shock might be shocked to find out many Christian rituals also were adapted from Pagans. Who needs to do more research now?
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