A member of a
Celtic order of priest magicians or wizards whose rituals, centering on
animal and tree worship, were said to include
human sacrifice.
A druid was a member of the priestly class in Gaul and likely other parts of
Celtic Western Europe during the Iron Age. Following the invasion of Gaul by the Roman Empire, the druids were suppressed by the Roman
government from the 1st century CE and disappeared from the written record by the 2nd century, although there
may have been later survivals in the British Isles. Very little is currently known about the ancient druids as they left no written accounts about themselves, and other than a few descriptions left by Greek and Roman authors, and in stories created by later mediaeval
Irish writers, the accuracy of all of which are disputed, we have no evidence about them.