Druidess


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Dru´id`ess


n.1.A female Druid; a prophetess.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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King Arthur was High Priest at the wedding, or 'handfasting', of Chief Druid David Morgan-Brown and Chief Druidess Louise Turner at Muirshiel Country Park in the Lochwinnoch hills.
Kestrel and her Lycan army have been defeated by the Druidess Sylvanis' Lycan army.
Samantha Frenee-Hutchins argues that Boudicca's historical positioning as "druidess, prophetess, and goddess" in her struggle against Roman occupation connected to Elizabeth's place as religious leader standing strong against Catholic incursion, yet Frenee-Hutchins also posits that "the darker [pagan] side to Boudicca's religious activities" and the violence of her response to the Romans likely made the Briton a less useful model for encomium than the Virgin Mary, whose iconography was imported into Elizabethan representations from the 1570s (145).
Because of her well known keen appreciation of clog dancing, Camilla is to be created a druidess at the next National Eisteddfod.