any druids???????

Answer 1

The Iron Age druids were the educated class of the Celts. They held many different positions---priest, physician, law-makers, judges, advisors to leaders, teachers, etc.

Today, we have modern druids (sometimes referring to themselves as neo-druids) who try to embrace the principles and practices of the ancient druids as much as is possible in our modern world. As a few have already answered, the ancient druids had a taboo on writing down sacred information. There are no "secret writings" of the ancient druids to build a completely accurate practice like theirs, nor would we necessarily want to. Things like head-hunting, animal sacrifices, and slavery were practiced (and it was practiced by most cultures of that time--not just the Celts). Modern druidism tries to interpret the worldview and practices of the ancient Celts through history (but secondary sources, usually Roman), mythology (written down by people of different beliefs from the druids), archaeology, and linguistics. Then they try to piece it together and adapt it to our modern world. There are many fine druidic organizations. This is a website that describes some of them and gives links for more information:
http://www.geocities.com/mikerdna/drulinks.html

Personally, I like these three groups:
http://paganachd.com/faq/index.html
http://www.adf.org/core/
http://www.keltria.org/

Some good articles about what we know and do not know about the ancient Celts:
http://www.conjure.com/whocelts.html
http://draeconin.com/database/celtreli.htm

These references are about people who are serious about following this path. Unfortunately, there are also a number of "playgans" who are just looking for a cool-sounding title and wouldn't know a Celt if they tripped over one. They aren't worth listening to or discussing.

Answer 2

There are people that claim to be Druids.. but I am not sure they are the real thing. See the Druids never wrote anything down and then of course there was the church that hunted them down.. The ones that claim to be druids are doing the best they can with what knowledge they have of the craft...

So yes There are Druids

Answer 3

My cousin Mike is a Druid. He actually leads some ceremonies, he did the one at Thornborough Henge a few years back.
I am not a Druid myself, although I do think there is something in the old ways.
"You've got an angel on your shoulder
But you wear the Old God's horns
And we dance around the maypole
As the vicar raised a toast to the pagan celebration
And extends an invitation, to us all
So he can save us when we fall" - Ian Anderson (A Passion Play)

Answer 4

There are people who play pretend and imagine that they're druids, but it's pretty laughable. Although the druids did have a written language, they didn't write anything down regarding their beliefs or rituals, so the goofs who call themselves druids today are playing make-believe.

Answer 5

Although since Christian times Druids have been identified as wizards and soothsayers, in pre-Christian Celtic society they formed an intellectual class comprising philosophers, judges, educators, historians, doctors, seers, astronomers, and astrologers. The earliest surviving Classical references to Druids date to the 2nd century B.C.E.
The word Druidae is of Celtic origin. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23/24-79 C.E.) believed it to be a cognate with the Greek work drus, meaning "an oak." Dru-wid combines the word roots "oak" and "knowledge" (wid means "to know" or "to see" - as in the Sanskrit vid). The oak (together with the rowan and hazel) was an important sacred tree to the Druids. In the Celtic social system, Druid was a title given to learned men and women possessing "oak knowledge" (or "oak wisdom").

Some scholars have argued that Druids originally belonged to a pre-Celtic ('non-Aryan') population in Britain and Ireland (from where they spread to Gaul), noting that there is no trace of Druidism among Celts elsewhere - in Cisalpine Italy, Spain, or Galatia (modern Turkey). Others, however, believe that Druids were an indigenous Celtic intelligentsia to be found among all Celtic peoples, but were known by other names.

With the revival of interest in the Druids in later times, the question of what they looked like has been largely a matter of imagination. Early representations tended to show them dressed in vaguely classical garb. Aylett Sammes, in his Britannia Antiqua Illustrata (1676), shows a Druid barefoot dressed in a knee-length tunic and a hooded cloak. He holds a staff in one hand and in the other a book and a sprig of mistletoe. A bag or scrip hangs from his belt.

Besides observing that the name 'Druid' is derived from "oak", it was Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (XVI, 95), who associates the Druids with mistletoe and oak groves: "The Druids...hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows provided it is an oak. They choose the oak to form groves, and they do not perform any religious rites without its foliage..." Pliny also describes how the Druids used a "gold pruning hook" or "sickle" to gather the mistletoe.

Answer 6

I'm a DRUID in World Of Warcraft, does that count? lol.

Answer 7

My grandfather was. He came from Ireland and his whole family was druids as far back as anyone could remainder.

Answer 8

no druids allowed on this site - they're bard! lol

Answer 9

Pagan

Answer 10

they used to gather at stone henge on summer solstice. But in modern day this has turned out to be a bunch of partying new-agers.