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Artist
Henri-Paul Motte
(1846 - 1922)
French
Title
Druids Cutting the Mistletoe on the Sixth Day of the Moon
Date
c. 1895
Dimensions
80 x 116 cm
Location
private collection
Image size
400 x 516 pixels
File size
82.93 KB
Full size image
(800× 1032 pixels, 304.17 KB)
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On the sixth day of the moon, the Druids performed an elaborate ceremony where a Druid priest cut mistletoe from an oak tree with a golden sickle, after which two white bulls were sacrificed.
For the Druids, mistletoe gathered from an oak tree was sacred, they believed it could be used as an antidote to any poison and had the power cure any disease, an "all-heal" they called it.
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