Word: druidical
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...time trees were sacred. Gods inhabited them and took their forms. Trees were druidic. They rose out of the earth, gesticulating, tossing their hair. They were the tenderest life-form: cooling, sheltering, calming, enigmatic. Or else they might harbor terrors: beasts and devils in the dark forest. They were, in either case, magic. Still are, of course, although they have also evolved into mere lumber...
...play his hits, including "When the Spell is Broken," "Shoot Out the Lights" and "Tear-Stained Letter." He, too, dedicated a song to George Bush ("Pharoah"). His lone cover, an unexpected choice, was the encore of the Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," sung like a druidic chant on Salisbury Plain. Oddly enough, it worked...
...image of an Asian master race. In a book just published in Paris called L'Or des Fourmis (The Ants' Gold), Peissel argues that the Minaro constitute "a living museum of life in the days of stone-age men." They live in adobe huts, erect great druidic stone monuments and center their livelihoods on the ibex, a wild mountain goat that they hunt with arrows tipped with the poison wolfsbane (rock carvings of the ibex are scattered throughout their mountains). The Minaro also raise sheep and goats, grow grapes, from which they make wine, and in spite...
...born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient superstitions and druidic spells...
Harvard Crew Harvard Mountaineering Club Harvard Druidic Society...