{"id":395,"date":"2021-03-09T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2023-05-09T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:15:54","slug":"how-did-the-druids-use-mistletoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/how-did-the-druids-use-mistletoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Druids and Mistletoe: How They Used the Sacred Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is easy to see why the Druids inspire the imagination so much, with their white robes, practicing magic deep in the forests of Britain. At the center of their scientific and spiritual lives was the mistletoe plant. In this article we are going to answer the question: How did the druids use mistletoe?<\/p>\n
The Druids were mystical priests who lived in Britain from around 200 B.C to 200 A.D. They possessed advanced knowledge of science and theology, which they only shared amongst their members. They placed great importance on nature, in particular the oak tree, and used the mistletoe which grow on the oak tree in their medicine and religious practices.<\/strong><\/p>\n Some believe that the word Druid means \u201cthe men of the oak trees. The oaks are among the tallest and strongest trees of the forests of Europe, has the hardest and most compact wood, and can easily live over 700 years, reaching 10 stories in height. Like the Greeks before them, the Druids recognized the Oak as being sacred. The forest gods or tree deities of the Greeks were known as dryads. <\/em>The word is also similar to the Gaelic word druidh<\/em>, which means \u201cwise man\u201d or \u201csorcerer\u201d. In Sanskrit the word dru <\/em>means \u201ctimber\u201d. The Druids would conduct their spiritual work deep in the groves of the oak trees of Britain. To them the oak tree was the symbol of the Supreme Deity, and it was from the oak tree that the druids would get their mistletoe.<\/p>\nDruids and the Oak Tree<\/strong><\/h2>\n