The following statement will make our position towards mediumship of the most common kind clear: In Druidism, for one example, disciples for training in magical sciences are said to have spent twenty years in severe study and special psychical training before deemed fit to be called Druids and thus to control daemons, ghosts, or all invisible entities capable of possessing living men and women.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
And, in accordance with this evidence, Professor Georges Dottin, who has made a special study of the historical records concerning Druidism, writes:-'The Druids of Ireland appear to us above all as magicians and prophets.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Druidism, 20. Dualism, Persian, xxi, 142, 151, 159, 199, 210. Dusares, 111. Easter, xviii, 70. Egypt, 73ff.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont