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Hedgerider
As the author of Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld, Eric j. de Vries, a student of shamanism and mysticism, found that there were very few modern shamans that hearkened back to the shamanism of Old Europe. So, did European shamans ever really exist? Here are some of the results of his painstaking research and investigations. There were European shamans, a lot in fact. However the problem revolves around the fact that the heritage of European shamanism consists of half-forgotten fairy-tales and half-remembered myths and even that wisdom is mostly lost due to scientific thinking. But in ancient times there were a lot of shamans. European history is full of references to shamanism, though they are deeply hidden. The legendary Roman people believed there were ‘screech-owls’ – people who would fly about at night in the form of owls. Even one of the major gods of the Greeks, Dionysus, was worshipped in what can only be described as a ‘shamanic’ way.
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