Dark Magic
There is evidence to suggest that druids were powerful figures due to the fact that they could either help or harm you. Also they used to use humans as sacrificial gifts in honour of their Gods and Goddesses. Evidence is supplied by the Tollund man and other sacrificial bodies being found in peat bogs across Europe.
The Tollund Man was found in 1950 in a Danish Peat Bog, it had been preserved since the 1st century BC.
Ergot is a highly toxic fungus which was found to grow on rye. It has very powerful alkaloids similar to the drug LSD and would have caused the person to experience convulsions and hallucinations.
There is also evidence to suggest that certain people in the community used to volunteer themselves for sacrifice and that druids used hallugenic drugs to enable them to tap in to the spirit world. In 1984 in Cheshire another 2000 year old body was found in a peat bog. He was young, fit and well groomed and had been hit on the head, strangled and his throat cut. There were traces of mistletoe in his stomach which is a poisonous herb that was sacred to the druids suggesting a druidic connection.
However the druids power of authority started to end and became limited under Roman rule. However methods of Divination were still practiced as evidence of this was found near Colchester. A grave of a wise-man was found resembling either a ritual specialist, a fortune teller or a medicine man. Objects were found hidden in the grave containing a board and some rods made out of iron and copper alloy which is believed to have been used for runic purposes to obtain information from the Gods.
