A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - Philip Freeman
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Join the Celtic druid Camma in her village as she conducts religious rites, serves as a healer, and mediates conflict between tribes.
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As the sun rises in 55 BCE, Camma lays two pigeons on the altar at the center of her village. She wrings the birds’ necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine messages. Camma is a druid. She conducts religious rites, serves as a judge, healer, and scholar, teaches children and mediates conflict between Celtic tribes. Philip Freeman outlines a day in the life of a druid.
Lesson by Philip Freeman, directed by Keegan Thornhill.
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That was the most pleasant visual snapping of an animals neck I have ever experienced
Heather Thomson It looked as if it was totally painless...
@@peroz1000 If she's that well practiced at it. It probably was.
Especially when the animals where seen alive while having their entrails examined
I can just imagine young kids misunderstanding it, thinking that birds must somehow have detachable heads... and next thing you know a horrible accident occurs with the pet parrot.
lol yea
These ' a day in life ' are awesome. Teded is awesome .
Dang I wanted to see a axtrix and oblixe cameo
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“Her evening meal of porridge, a *bit* of meat, and a cup of wine.’
*Slaps down massive hunk of flesh*
Wamen need to be strong in nordic/Celtic histories, they need protein.
yes... a very big bit
"salting pigs" by literally putting salt on live pigs. I died.
unlike the pigs
@@abibas3050
Me: i'm gonna tell him
My sis: DON'T!
@@vegan4theanimals no
Druid: the stars tells us to make peace
Romans: *That’s fortune cookie nonsense*
*Roman in 4th century
Roman's : "hey we saw a cross up in the sky before the battle and we're ditching our pagans gods to a dead Jewish carpenter".
@@MiguelPerez-zx2wg that dead Jewish carpenter is the son of god
@@MiguelPerez-zx2wg Romans: also because the emperor tells us to
They became the self actualisers.
@@portalenthusiast823 ---profound.
The Chieftains standing on their shields gave me such a flashback to Astérix & Obélix.
Saaaaaaame
PTNLemay I thought I was the only one!! I loved those comics
By Toutatis!
Fellow fans!! Greetings from lutetia😄
Def
Teacher, judge, doctor, mediator, priestess.... she's kinda overworked. I hope the pay is well.
Payment is wellBEING. And wellbeing is one for all.
Druids were a very privileged social class.
She gets to drink meat and eat wine. What else could she want?
Dont worry in real life women werent doing that much. This is Ted propaganda, as always.
It’s called communism
“THESE ARE NOT THE DRUIDS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR”
"These are not the druids we are looking for"
YOU SPIN ME ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND
what other druids u looking for? i dont get it?
@@zotoda Star Wars jedi.
@@zotoda razorclaw
Romans: *disregard druids’ authority*
Also Romans: *consults chickens for signs of victory in battle*
what does that have to do with anything?
@@afsarahmed6365 r/whoosh
Though, that is something we don't actually know. None of the historical texts are first hand accounts and we have literally no archeological evidence of anything related to the druids in particular. What we do have is celtic polytheism context which the druids were a higher sect of religious figures within the celtic beliefs. So we assume that they performed animal sacrifice, but we don't know for sure. Christianization rears it's head in nearly all of our knowledge of ancient religions, so don't assume that these videos are facts. They can't be because we don't have information on the druids.
@@hold_the_mike yeah this is always something that saddens me... we don't have much in the way of knowledge about the various tribes and peoples that lived in many parts of Europe. all we have are what others wrote about them, and the only folks who wrote about these peoples were Romans and Christians who both had reasons to denigrate the peoples and religions of the area. that and the Roman's Syncretism saying that some gods were just the same gods they worshipped but wrong. like how an Early version of Odin is syncretized with Mercury, Tyr with Mars and Thor with Hercules. at least with the Romans we have some records of the gods the peoples they encountered worshipped, even if we have to untangle a mess of localization
love that singing wiggly tongue !
a classic animation
Rome express parchment mail
General continue your efforts inward into Gaul. stop
It is time to invade the west coast of Gaul. stop
Aside, could you pick up some bread, milk and eggs on the way
home after the invasion and battle. stop
Hugs and kisses. stop
XOXOXO Julius Caesar
Post Scriptum
The Roman senators back at home were very off at the last cocktail party.
I loved this part, especially the reference to the difficulties in providing for his troops Caesar encountered in Gaul.
McHrozni stop
I died laughing when I saw that. The graphics design team had a great time in this one.
"The way the senators held their knives was quite off"
Okay, I want to drop a fun fact because the letter made me think of it.
I read De Bello Gallico my senior year of HS for AP Latin. As established in the video, there were people in Gaul who could read Latin. At one point, Julius Caesar has a top secret letter he needs to send, but is afraid that it will be intercepted. His solution? He writes the letter in Latin, but uses the Greek alphabet because the gauls didn't know Greek.
That was genius.
@@Corgimations they probably mean as in 'period' but I suppose back then it had to be written as a word
This was such an interesting set up. What a great way to show us the life of someone who lived in the past; by giving a story of a first hand account perspective.
" Or rewind time by about 2000 years and follow an egyptian doctor "
i always forget how old egyptians are
Ancient Egypt was one of the longest lasting civilisations spanning 30 centuries. Cleopatra herself lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the great pyramids.
nice profile pic, i can see you are a human of culture
@@eoincampbell1584 Do you watch bright side?
REWIND TIME ua-cam.com/video/d9B-_7RN85Y/v-deo.html
"XOXOXO"
-Julius Cesar 2019
0:50
"Wild boar and mistletoe soup on a medium heat, caramelize your onion with a clove of garlic, add a pinch of salt and ground back pepper, sauté your wild boar and slowly add water, drop in fresh mistletoe berry to taste simmer for 20 minutes and serve."
Sounds like something I would see from Gordon Ramsay.
either that or the recipe for the magic potion
Don’t try it at home… mistletoe berries are toxic, if overused. 😮😢😮
Is it me or does somebody else get the vibe of *Asterix & Obelix?*
same here. Potions, Cesar, Gaul, Roman, chief stands on the shield that carry by other men, etc
I mean, it's what Asterix & Obelix are based on. Celtic culture (Their village is the north of what's now know as the region of Brittany in France, which is still today a region that trives of it's 'modern' celtic culture (you may have heard of the interceltic festival of Lorient, which is between all celtic nations/regions: Brittany, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Man, Ireland and Cornwall)
Me
It's probably due to all the inaccurate "carrying their leaders on shields", "wearing horned helmets", etc. But aside from that this video is pretty spot-on.
@@neitherman9997 Astérix & Obélix is based on what modern French people thought of roman accounts about pre-romanization Gauls. Suffice to say, it is not very accurate in any meaningful way.
The Celtic genocide is probably one of the most under appreciated tragedies in all of history. Thank the Gods we have the Eddas to preserve Germanic/Teutonic culture, but there’s really just nothing to speak of the Druidic culture.
Lol without the romans you would probably not be watching this video
Even the Eddas were written by christians. Can't escape them!
Toq The Wise well considering the celts still we’re able to fight back for a long time it’s impressive, makes me think how Visigoths succeeded on attacking Rome but not the celts...
Hundreds of years of native Celtic culture wiped out. It's very sad, first the Romans then Christianity
@@VanadzorImSirac As if that would justify an atrocity like genocide if it were true. (which it is not)
I first learned about druids from Asterix. Getafix was a badass, but I didn't realize druids' responsibilities were so comprehensive! Thanks!
Thank you for this interesting story. It would be interesting to learn more about the scientific and metaphysical beliefs of the Druids, in addition to their communal practices.
There has to be a part 2, this was too good to go on a cliff hanger.
3:24 lol, read the message on the letter
xoxoxo julius ceasar 😂😂 thank you
@Kurt E. Clothier I love them too.
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Love them heavenly
I am very interested in any information on Celtic life and especially the druids. Thank you for this video!
Check out the traditions codified by Per Henrik Ling, as well as a modern book called "Prescription for Herbal Healing." I believe the 7th or 8th edition is currently in print.
It's all useful knowledge, and much, if not most of it goes back to the Druidic traditions and teachings.
this is false information. not worth hearing.
did Gaul leaders really stand on shields with one clansmen holding it to show their rule? I thought it was just some goofy fun in Asterix
Depends on how heavy the leader is, and how large the shield. Warriors back then were frighteningly strong.
There are no evidence of this among gaul people. Although, Franks did and in the XIXth century, when school became mandatory in France, something we call the Roman national (National novel) was created. It presented the Gauls and the Franks as the ancestors of French people (which is far from really true), and so there have been confustions between the two people over the time.
@Afrodisiac I agree with you but note that I am not talking about genetics but historiography and education.
@@guillaume5612 What? That is the history of France and the French people, they're the descendants of Roman-occupied Gaul and the Frankish and other Germanic tribes which tried to continue on the legacy of Christian Rome, or at least aped it. They still even ape it to this day with things like the foreign Legion.
Actually, Celts weren't doing that, it was the Franks who were doing that...
A beautiful done video! Druids skills and abilities suited a time of both peace and struggle.
Reminds me the most famous druid of our time GETAFIX!!!
It's "Miraculix" ok genius
@@khalnetherfields7263 For the love of Toutatis, it's Panoramix!!!
@@khalnetherfields7263that it is indeed, for us Germans at least, don’t know too much about that his name is in other countries
This just so happens to be an area I enjoy studying it’s nice seeing ted do more episodes on the ancient celts
I studied Latin for 7 years and omg I cried so much when I saw the parchment, wonder how many people thought if it was the real deal ToT
The animation is so good in this one! Love the art style! ❤️
Ahhhhh yaes i love celtic culture ....been waiting for this
This is some quality animation, good job, Ted-Ed!
Wow, the story is so captivating...it caught my attention so sightly that I forgot I was cleaning the room.
I truly enjoy these for their detail and the fact that it gives background knowlage about tons of places while still making it interesting.
If possible part two maybe ?, I loved this💙
She should get help from a certain Druid from a certain tribe that has a certain magical elixir...
OMG YESS!!
with a certain big guy that got dipped in that certain magical elixir when he was young
@@m.d.y.4703 asterix and obelix
@@m.d.y.4703 asterix and obelix
@@m.d.y.4703 One of the greatest french comics. It has even been adapted to 4 live action films.
Ted-ED is the only reason why UA-cam is still great.
I greatly appreciate this content, Ted-ed. It is for me as if this allowed me to live a day, or a couple minutes, a life different from the life I have now.
It's a very pleasant experience for sure.
I love how it's"a day in the life" and it's the most unique situations
Amazing. Beautiful. Still have that whole issue of sacrificing human beings during festivals though. And displaying heads as a Celtic custom. Fascinating culture, but there is always more to it than one view or one day can show. (True on the other end too)
There's debate as to how accurate, common or even widespread human sacrifice was among the druids. Ceasar was more a politician than a historian, and in his documentation he is infamous for vilifying foreign cultures to justify conquering them. But suppose the worst of what he said is accurate--I would argue that killing a criminal in an rare religious ceremony is far more humane than the estimated 400,000 human deaths by the Colosseum. At worst, regarding human sacrifice by the druids as absolute truth is a questionable persuasion of Roman conquest--at best, it's hypocrisy.
Additionally, the display of human heads is speculated to be more honor based than to be a gruesome trophy. The head was believed to house the spirit of the body, and by society was revered spiritually more than it was a display of conquest and cruelty. Still morbid by modern standards, certainly, but something to consider.
"Human sacrifices" in celtic culture were more likely ritualized judicial executions, carried out in either of two cases: 1) as capital punishment for severe crimes like treason, and/or 2) as a way to settle disputes by having one of a nation/confederation's best fighters volunteer to be executed instead of declaring a much bloodier war.
Druids officiated those ceremonies, kinda like how christian priests gave the last sacrament to convicts on the gallows, except that in the case of druids the "priests" are also the judicial official responsible for executing the sentence, since they were considered a neutral party as far as Law and politics go.
A *lot* of celtic customs had to do with peace-making and preventing conflicts, because celts traditionally valued mutual independance and thus couldn't simply have some tyrant conquer everyone to enforce a hegemonic "peace" through forced union or assimilation. The diversity and autonomy of the hundreds of distinct tribes, nations and confederations in Celtic Europe required means of mutual appeasement, and ritual execution was one of those means at the time. It served a similar purpose to what judicial extradition does in the modern world.
@@EidolonSpecus Got sources for that? I believe you, but I need some backing proof if I want to convince others.
What's wrong with displaying the heads of your enemies?
@@isaacvanderbilt4505 what about there people
Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes", was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.
Thank you for this! It's hard to find videos about our ancient history that I can show my kiddos.
I would really love to hear more about the history of the British Isles, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. I feel like they arnt talked about a lot and its a part of my history that I would really love to learn more about.
Fire of Learning did an incredible job in his History of Scotland video.
I love the imagery of the pigeons at the beginning, especially how there heads unscrew.
I love you guys.
And the in the life of series.
I would love to see the sources of these interpretations
I saw what I felt like were various nods to the Asterix and Obelix series, set in Gaul during Roman times. If they were, thank you for that blast of nostalgia.
"The Roman senators at home were very off at the last cocktail party"
I'M DYIIIIIING
... Not as much as him! :P
@@rollingthunder1043 but he's dead
What is dead may never die
most amazing animation and storytelling as always ted ed!
I'm like earlier than the Mesopotamian Civilization
Invictus 😂
da faek invictus!
In case you were wondering: all the Veneti were then genocided by Caesar (all the warriors and nobles were killed, and the rest was enslaved)
Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium...
@@SMiki55 That's kind of the joke. Astérix was meant to be a light-hearted humorous anachronism, in constrast with actual History.
@@EidolonSpecus you don't say
Actual information about Druids! Yes!
I know!!! This was a real treat!
@Fae Trick I do agree: But that is why they used music to teach and learn. If you don't think that music makes a difference in memory, and the ability to remember, well look at School House Rock. Ask any child to sing the latest jingle for fast food, or cars, or anything. A wise man once wrote that he would rather write a nation's songs than It's laws because songs are always remembered. That being said, I wish they had written things down.
this is false information. not worth hearing.
@@trple2 how do you know?
@Fae Trick We really can't know that though. Aside from druids, nobles, bards and ovates, we do know that gaulish merchants could read and write; they wrote down bookkeeping stuff for their long-distance trade (incl. with Iberians, Greeks and Romans before the conquest). The Celts just didn't write down their own History and customs, that we know of (most likely because everyone relevant was expected to know this stuff already before they had to learn how to read for commerce, diplomacy, military command or other management stuff). Or maybe they did write down this stuff and the texts just didn't survive to this day.
They bothered to have written words on all of their own money. Like, we have coins with the face of a Uercingetorix and his name written on it. Writing was a practical tool, though maybe not revered like a good memory and sharp mind was. Maybe, like with the Socratic philosophers, putting down one's thoughts in writing was seen as detrimental to other people's ability to think for themselves; we don't know.
The animation is amazingly fluid and very cute. Not to mention it works well with the information.
I would love if y’all did a movie series showing the entire history of humanity
YESSSS!!! That's a GREAT IDEA, DoctorX17!
Theses are absolutely phenomenal
This reminds me the first chapter from a book novel called London
Very interesting video Ted Ed.
1:54 That is a delightfully optimistic image of "men salting pigs".
This was stunning. So accurate. Thank you.
Good Video! But you forgot about the WildShape in Lv2"
Amazing , love you Ted ed
I love that all the Asterix are showing up in the comments lol
*&†
I love these day in the life videos
드루이드의 삶에 대하여 배워보는 시간이 되었습니다. 드루이드의 평화에 대한 역할이 정말 중요했다는것을 배워습니다. 드루이드의 지식을 기록했으면 좋았을 뻔했습니다. 좋은 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.
Keegan Thornhill is my favorite Ted ed narrator and no one can tell me otherwise.
Special Thanks to Keegan Thornhill for such a beautiful animation.
Thank you very much for this video, it's very impressive. i will share it soon with my Friends.
You forgot the part where the go into boomkin form at night and spam moonfire in WSG
You are the best in telling stories man
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
Basically after a naval battle and the romans burning their villages, they massacred the tribe, enslaving those they didn’t kill
Hi from the Philippines! ✨
Goddammit, Camma! You had one job that was important. Now i have to write in Latin script. Are you happy now?
Very short but informative and a quality animation.
Beautiful animation, i love this videos
Hi guys, good job on the video as always!
Its amazing that this way of life is not totally lost or forgotten. There are many people living in Europe that still follow Celtic beliefs and traditions to this very day
You really must do more of these
3:15, Is this Igpay Atinlay!!?
eadray ethay ottombay ofway ethay etterlay
Just in time for an “early” comment. Always here to learn. Thanks TED for great animation and narration!
2:30 you know... These druids remind me of Medicine Cats from warriors
Very nice animations!
Somehow the druids remind me of the avatars - (from avatar the last airbender). Peacemakers, master of many fields etc.
I need more of these
AH! Ted ed teaching things i didn't even know i wanted to know
Timestamps (Powered by Merlin AI)
00:12 - Camma, a druid, performs religious rites and multi-faceted roles in her community.
00:43 - A Celtic Druid's life involves teaching and mediating conflicts.
01:16 - Camma chooses work over marriage
01:45 - Community care and daily tasks in Celtic life
02:11 - Camma consults the chieftain over omens.
02:38 - Camma resolves a conflict with the Redones
03:08 - Camma receives a warning message about Romans approaching their lands.
03:39 - Concerns about Roman invasion
This was posted 5 seonds ago and has 10k views
My brain:
*Somethings not right*
Maybe the power of advertising?
Haha!😂
10k views immediately out of 9M subscribers or just from those being notified because of previous TedEd clips they have watched...10k views all at the same time.😂 felt like 10k simultaneously watched it the first second it was uploaded.
Very fast in clicking I must say. Or just tuned in in any videos TedEd might upload.
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Its because its not about christianity. Anything against Christianity or Vs will always get uped like crazy. If u notice, go to christian pages advertising Christ or christianity, and the numbers aee always dumbed dkwn3or havjng the page deleted. I wouldn't doubt this comment being deleted
@@The_darkside_of What does this have to do with Christianity?
Oh...my....god!!! This TED-ED videos are AMAZING!!!
Why are celtic chieftains sometimes depicted as standing on shields? (see Asterix and Obelix for example)
To represent their higher stature in Celtic society.
Copy of one of my previous comments :
There are no evidence of this among gaul people. Although, Franks did and in the XIXth century, when school became mandatory in France, something we call the Roman national (National novel) was created. It presented the Gauls and the Franks as the ancestors of French people (which is far from really true), and so there have been confustions between the two people over the time.
It was Because of Richard Wagner. No, really.
Gauls did not carry their chiefs/warchiefs/senators on shields. Like the horned helmets that nobody actually wore, and the stereotypical mustache that only one or two statues have in all of the archeological record... all that is 19th-century wagnerian-opera invention; there is no substantiated evidence for it, it's mostly there due to artistic license in Astérix being inspired by the extremely inaccurate costuming of wagnerian operas _which weren't even about Gauls anyway._
Thanks so much starting Celtic study soon
I thought I watched this video a few months ago, not 1 year ago
I bet after you studied there cultur, you were become pro roman
I understand the animation clip is supposed to be humorous, but why perpetuate absolutely inaccurate imageries while coupling it with educative and factual commentary? Everything seen there comes straight out of an Astérix album and not anything regarding actual La Tène D culture.
fantastic work
3:06
"... a bit of meat,"
(pulls out 15 kg slab of meat)
I can't believe that the letter has hugs and kisses
Please do about Ancient Philippine mythology. Please. :)
Thank you that was excellent!
What i know about druids is they summon bears, wolves, turns into bears, entangles people, summons ravens, summons hurricane's and self revives.
Wow :)
WOW indeed.
Most of them are elvs too
Some are night elves, trolls or tauren.
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This is pretty amazing!
Teen Titans GO! may not be best show but I would have not been able to read and translated that letter at 3:16 if it wasn’t for that one episode
thanks for this 👍
The narrator: ‘..A bit of meat...’
The animation: a quarter of a cow
this animation is so cool and whimsical
Is there going to be a part 2? I wanna know what happens
they made up the first part so the 2nd would be the same. The story ends with the druids moving around, as they always did, and doing their thing. The End.
Awesome and informative video