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nations, nothing of this kind is to be found. It is true the Gothic nations had their priests, but they bore no more resemblance to the Druids, than to the Pontiffs of the Greeks and Romans, or any other Pagan people.
The Druids believed in the transmigration of the foul. The Teutonic nations, on the contrary, held that there was a fixed Elysium, and a hell, where the valiant and just were rewarded, and where the cowardly and the wicked suffered punishment. The description of these places forms a great part of the Edda.
In many other instances, the institutions of the Druids were extremely different from those of the Gothic nations. The former frequently burnt a great quantity of human victims alive, in large wicker images, as an offering to their
