Irish bog bodies suggest the Celts killed their kings when the harvests failed
Ancient Irish bog bodies reveal telling evidence that the Ned Kelly of the National Museum of Ireland believes the Iron Age men pulled from the midland bogs were not murder victims but deposed rulers, ritually killed and offered to the goddess of the land.Celts ritually sacrificed their kings to the Gods.
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