American druid: how a 1960s campus prank became a serious lifestyle

What began as a protest against a college religion requirement led to sects nationwide and, arguably, a religion

Last week, the Earth’s north pole tilted to its farthest point from the sun, ushering in the longest night of the year. For those who base their spiritual practice on the seasons, the solstice is a time of ritual and reflection, of communing with the darkness of nature and the light to come. At henges and groves throughout Britain, people gathered to mark this day: wiccans, neo-pagans of all sorts, and druids.

Druids are best known as iron age ritual workers, practitioners of an earth-based spirituality found throughout what is now England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The movement in the region still has many adherents who trace their inspiration back to these ancient forebears.

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