-
Celtic Druids believed in the reincarnation of the soul and keeping a balance in the universe.
To do this, sometimes it was necessary to sacrifice animals and even humans.
When they had to make a human sacrifice, the victims (usually warriors of an enemy tribe), were burned to death in a wicker basket that was hung from an oak tree.
The victims had to be free of fear to appease the Creator,
so they were drugged and usually died of smoke inhalation.
The Picts in northern Scotland were known to drown their victims. When the victims died, the Druids would chant, praising them for their courage.
A bracelet is an article of jewelry which is worn around the wrist.
Bracelets can be manufactured from leather, cloth, hemp, plastic or metal,
and sometimes contain rocks, wood, or shells.
Bracelets that are in solid form, usually some metal, are referred to as bangles or bangle bracelets. They can be smooth, textured or set with stones.
-
Since the earliest of Christian times the Druids have been identified
as wizards, seers and soothsayers.
In the pre-Christian Celtic society they formed an intellectual class comprising philosophers, judges, educators, historians, doctors, seers, astronomers, and astrologers.
The name "Druid" is unique to the Celtic people. Other cultures had other names for
their clergy and expected different duties from them.
Druids were not an ethnic or cultural group in, or of, themselves but were part of a larger society in which they participated. In the pre-christian era of the Celtic culture the Druids were members of a professional class within their culture
and the Celtic Nations of Western Europe and the British Isles.
Claw is a peculiar type of a ring.
It’s also worn on a finger, but on its nail-bone.
This original accessory complement the style of your wear and jewelry and
often emphasize the wearer’s relation towards some particular subculture or group.
-
Celtic jewelry is a breath taking treasure, which has been forged within the romantic mists
of time, where its mythological history and timeless tales of legend,
love, loyalty and friendship further enrich its natural beauty.
Celtic jewelry provides us with a shimmering fusion of Celtic designs and symbols.
Skillfully brought together by a passion for artistic creativity and the skills of old.
A hair-slide is a clasp for holding hair in place.
They are used to keep hair out of the eyes or secure hairstyles,
but can also be purely ornamental.
Our hair-slides are designed to pull back longer pieces of hair or larger amounts of hair
and are usually worn at the back of the head.
Hair-slides may also be used for purely decorative purposes.
-
Pagan Celtic Spirituality understood that all of existence has a cyclic nature,
and that there is a direct continuity between the material world and the otherworld.
Druidic teachings, that have come down to us through Welsh tradition, recognized
that there is an unseen world that interpenetrates and affects the visible world.
Things are just not what they seem. Everything exists on several simultaneous levels.
Human beings can understand things as having three levels:
the physical, the spiritual, and the symbolic.
Thus, Celtic culture was integrated with nature, and expressed itself through the multiple possibilities of life itself. Celtic religion taught the reincarnation of all individual souls,
and the appearance of divine beings on Earth.
A pendant, or lavalier, is a type of jewelry, consisting of a pendant suspended from a necklace.
Pendants are also called lavaliers.
A lavalier is named for the type of pendant popularized by the Duchesse de la Vallière,
a mistress of King Louis XIV of France.
Within the fashion world, the name was eventually shortened to "lavalier"
The lavalier can be recognized most for its drop that usually consists of a stone
or a chandelier type of drop which is attached to the chain and not attached by a bale.
-
The peoples known as the Celts are thought to have originated in central Europe, to the east of the Rhine in the areas now part of southern Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
From around 3,400 years ago, these proto-Celtic peoples expanded across the Continent, and eventually inhabited a large portion of central, western, and northwestern Europe.
Even today, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, Cumbria and Brittany are basically Celtic in character. Despite the changes that time has brought,
the influence of Celtic traditions still fundamental.
A finger ring is a circular band worn as a type of ornamental jewellery around a finger.
Other types of metal bands worn as ornaments are also called rings, such as arm or neck rings.
Rings are worn by both men and women and can be of any quality.
Rings can be made of metal, plastic, wood, bone, glass, gemstone and other materials.
They may be set with a "stone" of some sort, which is often a precious or semi-precious gemstone such as ruby, sapphire or emerald, but can also be of almost any material.