Out Of The Shadows, An Exploration of Dark Paganism & Magick Options

I was emailed reguarding a post on The Orical (found @ www.onewitch.com) about this book. It seems to cover an aspect of Paganism that many consider taboo. I hope to aquire this book soon. You can find more info on it at http://www.waningmoon.com/book/ (IMG:style_emoticons/default/yes.gif)

But to reject the evidence of their existence is to display only ignorance of updated information coming to light all the time, and to say that they adopted Christianity or Roman rule quite peacefully, is clearly not borne out by the evidence, some hoped to survive by doing so but generally they fought viciously and long in resisting any such control. Allowing for the fact that the Romans may have exaggerated their figures to enhance their own victories, many hundreds of thousands of Celts obviously died
defending their culture and way of life.

First what I was rejecting was that a person in this thread was claiming to have been tought "the old ways". I'm not being ignorant I'm being skeptical about the validity that this person really knows the "old ways" and not just what they were told either from a book or relative who makes strong claims but that the extent of the truth of their beliefs.

I have plenty of sources, even a 3 video set that starts from the earlist "celtic" findings in Spain and how they were the first bronze age, people's in Europe. Or was it Iron? Point is the video discusses the Celts technological advantage over other peoples to a certain period of time. It also talks about their indo-european Ancestors and the possibilites about what made them migrate. It goes into detail about various archeological sites that examine celtic remains and clears up the myths about stoneheinge. The next video is about the celts and druids in the times of the greeks and romans. It goes through various texts that describe the celtic peoples and even points out the things the celts influenced in Roman/Greek societies as well as the extent of Celtic dominion. The final video talks about how their culture was effectivly wipped out and modern restoration efforts. From the desctruction left by the Romans, Persians (eastern tribes), Christains, Anglo/Saxons and Vikings there isn't a lot left that really gives us a good, accurate and thorough, picture about the celts. One thing that is for sure is the term "celt" isn't in refference to simply a race of peoples its a linguistic reference to describe a people who shared common linguistic characteristics. The variations from one tribe to another in mythos and tradition, while sharing many things, are also pretty unique from one tribe to the next. I haven't this video set infront of me but if you or somebody else is interested I call find them and give you their titles.

I also have a book about the druids. "Celtic magick", quoted because its an author's interpritation of celtic festivals and rituals. An encyclopedia of mythology that has a large section dedicated to celtic pentheons and myths that survived the test of time. And I have a welsh dictionairy. I'm not sketical about somebody claiming to know the "old ways" because I'm ignorant. I'm skeptical because I know such claims are usually false and unfounded. I'm not saying its impossible. I'd just like to see the evidence or any sources at all.