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Old June 5th, 2019 #4
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Originally Posted by Nikola Bijeliti View Post
I've read they also settled in North America before Columbus and constructed monuments with inscriptions on them.
. . are you sure you aren't talking about the Vikings . . ?

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Since there were no Christians in North America at that time, the monuments, along with their inscriptions, were preserved, whereas the corresponding ones in Ireland were destroyed.
You're right , Christians as such often showed a bit of hostility towards redheads ( which Celtic people were ) . .

The problem . . even after the huge Celtic influence in Europe ceased they still lived in diaspora.

Other peoples , like the Saxons and the Franks were won for Christendom quite quickly.

Whereas Celts still largely held on to their 'original faith' . . That original faith included listening to the Druids who were their priest-caste and performing rituals which , from the then-point of view must have come across as un-christian ..

So . . the 'witch-persecution' was born . . Like I said , even the word 'witch' derives from 'Wicca' ( = wise woman ) , a celtic priestess . .


. . of course medieval Christians didn't know anything about the Celts and their history ( after all ,they didn't even leave written records behind ) , unlike us today , they simply saw that there were some people with red hair and became superstituous.