Secrets of the Druids

by John Matthews (Editor)

An in-depth study of the history, lore, and tradition of Celtic philosophy and religion, this beautifully designed book offers a fascinating look of the mysterious ways of the Druids.

John Matthews is the author of more than fifty books on Celtic and Arthurian History and related subjects. He is a prominent lecturer and teacher in the United States and Europe.

Genres: Mythology, Paganism, Nonfiction, History, Occult

400 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

John Matthews is an historian, folklorist and author. He has been a full time writer since 1980 and has produced over ninety books on the Arthurian Legends and Grail Studies, as well as short stories and a volume of poetry. He has devoted much of the past thirty years to the study of Arthurian Traditions and myth in general. His best known and most widely read works are ‘Pirates’ (Carlton/Atheneum), No 1 children’s book on the New York Times Review best-seller list for 22 weeks in 2006, ‘The Grail, Quest for Eternal Life’ (Thames & Hudson, 1981) ‘The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom’ (Element, 1994) and ‘The Winter Solstice’ (Quest Books, 1999) which won the Benjamin Franklin Award for that year. His book ‘Celtic Warrior Chiefs’ was a New York Public Library recommended title for young people.

Reviews

[Nat · Rating 1 out of 5]

John Matthews should be slapped for his ‘editing’ skills.

I am probably an idiot for actually reading this cover to cover. To be fair, I was actually going to DNF this about 1/3 of the way through after several typos, clipart obscuring text and general illegibility, but every other chapter or so would have interesting lore. There were a few kernels of ancient stories that I found interesting but mostly it’s incomprehensible. There are zero references so when random paragraphs are almost repeating themselves I have no idea if it’s really poor editing or it’s faithfully copied ancient texts.
Someone perhaps used an early version of text replacement for the word Bard to make sure it was capitalized but didn’t notice the several issues with the word scabBard.

If you ever see a copy of this you could maybe skim through it, read a page here or there. Otherwise DO NOT READ THIS. There has got to a million other books out there that actually have accurate Druid lore written in a comprehensible manner.

[Kim]

Very illuminating.