The increasing popularity of Paganism is visible in the Dolmen Grove, a group of Dorset druids.
The Charity Commission has accepted that druids' worship of natural spirits could be seen as religious activity.
BBC: Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission
Its members are known as druids, and they wear robes of various colours depending on their rank.
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Baverstock School and Specialist Sports College in Druids Heath, Birmingham, was one of the schools closed on Tuesday.
The move comes thousands of years after the first druids worshipped in Britain.
BBC: Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission
There are masters and magicians and druids and emporers, and who knows what else, all gaming for your money.
In the cultural history of nakedness, he matters rather more than the Druids.
Druidry was one the first known spiritual practices in Britain, and druids existed in Celtic societies elsewhere in Europe as well.
BBC: Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission
Druids also worship the spirits of places, such as mountains and rivers, with rituals focused particularly on the turning of the seasons.
BBC: Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission
The origins of the Druids were as important figures or "religious professionals" among the Celts, who came to Britain in 1500 BC.
In this pre-Christian era, Druids acted as judges, doctors, diviners, mages, mystics, and clerical scholars, in other words, they were the intelligentsia of the time.
Bards wear blue robes, ovates wear green and druids white.
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To many of us, the Druids sound as if they have walked straight out of a science fiction novel, or perhaps even suggest something sinister akin to a strange cult or weird religious sect.
One morning, she woke up and saw six Druids looking at her through her window. (She lived on an upper floor.) In a moment, they were gone, and that was the only vision she ever had, but she has no doubt that she truly saw them.
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