>> I think it's based more on Celtic ideas of
>> re-incarnation than Buddist ones.
>
>We don't know enough about Celtic Religion before Christians destroyed it.
>Some of poems of Taliesin and Amargin might hint such concept behind the
>Christianized cover.....
>
>http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/175.html
There is also the oral tradition of witchcraft, some practicioners claim to have a family history of witches going back to pre-christian times. How much of this is true and how much a 19th Century invention is anyone's guess.
There certainly seems to be something which has remained in the collective memory of western europeans in spite of over 1500 years of Christianity.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/ --__--__--
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