Druid
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A druid was a leather-wearing caster class that can turn into animals a pre-medieval pagan priest. They were a learned class in Celtic culture but mostly disappeared by the end of the 2nd century CE after being suppressed by the Roman Empire. They lived in trees and are claimed to have built Stonehenge, even though it was built thousands of years before the first druids arrived in that region.
Many New Agers and/or Neopagans[1] like to imagine that they are also magical druids, this is known usually as "neo-druidism" or "druidry". Well, there's no problem with that, since the Druids were just normal, imaginative, power- and spiritually hungry people, too - and their occasional use of human sacrifice was just a minor character defect.
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- ↑ In a parallel to crank magnetism, the eclectic religious/woo mix that is New Age can encompass Neopaganism, while some Neopagans will definitely not see themselves as New Agers.