actually that all comes from bad 70,s horror movies, early eighties paper back fiction...and teenagers running aorund doing insane things for shock value taking the lyrics of death metal bands, most out of europe as experts on satanism and the more...wicked side that practice can justify...

druids were actually a very organized, almost priestly type of religion...they had their sacrifices, but mostly those were prisoners of war, willing participants or cats in baskets, in a way one could blame the invading hordes that the kelts were even acknowledge as being a sacrificial tribe, archeologist having discovered more brutal and sacrificial activity towards the end of their era...

it was the keltic thing to do, not specific to the druids who were simply the priests that led religious rituals, they were the judges and law makers of more tribal based, war like tribes...warriors used to chop the heads off of enemies and offer them to their war goddess macha...no druids involved...

most ancient religions had their live offerings, not all were human, and some active religions still practice the art...it's a contemporary moral stirred by more society minded individuals that view sacrifice as a bad thing...it's not even illegal, as long as it's not a human being offered up to the godsn that be...but that has nothing to do with sacrifice and more to do with the perception of murder.

i don't see why christians get so bent out of shape, they haven't always been the fluffy sheep of love and peace they are now...it's almost like pots calling cauldrons black...