DRUIDS AND THE EARLY CHRISTIANS Engraving by Frederick Hayman, showing the Druids being converted by the early Christians to the new faith. One Druid is cutting the sacred oak bough with a silver crescent knife: in the background (left) a bull is being slaughtered to the pgan gods. The plate in the open book in the foreground depicts the Wicker Man, wrongly believed to be an instrument of death, regulated by the Druids: those condemned to death were locked in the giant model of a human being, made from wickerwork: the whole thing was set on fire, and burned to ashes. A colour print
DRUIDS AND THE EARLY CHRISTIANS Engraving by Frederick Hayman, showing the Druids being converted by the early Christians to the new faith. One Druid is cutting the sacred oak bough with a silver crescent knife: in the background (left) a bull is being slaughtered to the pgan gods. The plate in the open book in the foreground depicts the Wicker Man, wrongly believed to be an instrument of death, regulated by the Druids: those condemned to death were locked in the giant model of a human being, made from wickerwork: the whole thing was set on fire, and burned to ashes. A colour print of the Wicker Man is available in the Charles Walker Collection.
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Photo credit: © Charles Walker Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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