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The first reference
Great Britain in European annals
which we
know was the statement in the fifth century B. C. of the Greek historian Herodotus,
that Phoenician sailors went to the British Isles
Islands." The people
tin. He called them the "Tin
whom these sailors traded must have been Celts, for
they were the first inhabitants
Britain who worked in metal instead
stone. The Druids were priests of the Celts centuries before Christ came. There is
a tradition
Ireland that they first arrived there
270 B. C., seven
hundred years before St. Patrick. The account of them written
Julius
Cæsar half a century before Christ speaks mainly of the Celts of Gaul, dividing
them
two ruling classes who kept the people almost in a state
slavery; the knights, who waged war, and the Druids who had charge of worship
and sacrifices, and were
addition physicians, historians, teachers,
scientists, and judges.
An excerpt from "The Book of Hallowe'en" by Ruth Edna Kelley
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