Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
BACK TO STONEHENGE
PsYCHoMETRIc RECoNsTRUc-
TON OF A DRUID CEREMONY.
Revival in a London Drawing Room
of a Sacrifcial Service $500
Years Old.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. December 8. "A weird and
thrilling scene of $500 years ago was re-
constructed the other day in matter-of-fact
Bayswater. 1t was the death scene of
virgin, who was sacrificed by the Druids
near Stonehenge to the sun god and whose
skeleton has Just been removed from the
barrow" in which it has rested since the
early bronze age. The bones were dis
covered at Avebury, near Marlborough.
Speaking upon the subject in modern
sitting room. Mr.. Ronald Bradley thus de-
scribed the events leading up to the dis
covery, for Mr.. Bradley is a psychometrist:
Il see some huts. They are just like the
huts of the North American Indians. l
can see the poles sticking up quite plainly,
and they covered with the skins of
animals. There are quite a number Of
them.
I'm the distance there is a large pile of
stones, some square, some oblong, some
triangular. feel that it is about $500
years since this scene occurred.
"A number of half-clad men and women
are squatting about the huts. 1t is sum-
mer time and the sun is shining brightly.
Il see this woman walking about, and
with her is a patriarchal man, with very
long beard and white HAIR. She is about
five feet seven inches tall and twenty to
twenty-five years of age. Her features are
rather long her eyes very dark, her under
lip rather full, her nose we'll shaped and
round and her long, black hair falls over
her shoulders.
THE upper part of her body is nude, and
around her loins is some kind of fur.
There is a roughly made crown of some
sort on her brow.
Now it is night time. and 1 am inside a
circle of huge stones. All around a number
of people are standing outside the circle In
the darkness. 1 can see lights reflected,
but l do not think there are any torches;
think boughs of some tree, perhaps pine
boughs, are being burnt, but l cannot see
them.
Inside the circle of stones there are one,
two, three, four, five priests. The one
who seems to be the principal priest has
long. white beard. In the center is
at either end. A great deal of smoke Is
rising, but l do not see where 1t comes
from.
Now the woman is being brought into
the circle by two more priests. They lift
her up and place her on the stone. Some
hideous figures like idols are also being
brought into the ring. One of them. which
see very clearly, is colored britt red
and yellow and on its breast Is very
crude picture of the sun.
The woman is lying with her head to-
ward t. east and her feet TOWARD the
west, and the chief priest is standing on
her left side with his face toward the
east. His right hand holds knife, and it
is raised up. Evidently a chant Is being
sung, for 1 can see the mouths of the
priests opening and shutting. and they are
swaying their bodies from side to side.
Suddenly the priest brings the knife
right down into the heart of the girl l
can see the blood squirt out and flow over
the stone. The body gives a bound and
the priest presses forward his left hand
to keep it down.
THE people have disappeared. but the
priests remain, and they are bringing for
ward vessels, bullying in the center and
slightly tapering toward the bottom-some-
thing like an egg in shape. One brings
grape cup from which smoke is issuing.
Some small part of the body is re-
moved and placed on top of the grape
cup, where it shrivels away and Is turned
into ashes The ashes are placed in one
of the Jars, and the other parts of the
body are then treated in the same way.
skins of some kind are placed over the
body. and it is borne away on litter.
''Al is darkness now. and 1 can see
nothing. Now 1 see the moon. 1t Is
strange I did not see 1t before. We have
come to an open spot in the glade of the
wood.
only a dozen or so priests are present.
and they perform strange ceremonies. They
form ring around the body and dance
around 1t. Their movements are most
grotesque. They bend themselves forward
and backward. to one side and to the other.
They have taken up the body again, and
they are going on again.
"They come to a grave shaped like a little
it up with face toward the east. They
put some ornaments In the grave and they
put fruits in the grape cup.
Now it is utter darkness-the darkness
of the grave"
Mr. Bradley explained before trying to
explain and unravel the mystery of the
skeleton that he was quite ignorant of the
archaeology of the period. that he had no
books upon the subject except perhaps a
small encyclopedia and that he had not
referred to any books. He explained
psychometrist as follows:
ITO those who conscious of and SEN
sitive to psychological vibrations there
are produced on coming into contact with
the surroundings or objects from surround
ings subjective pictures relative to the
lives of those In such surroundings Thus
the psychometrist or sensitive Is simply
human photograph. the objects being the
records which produce sensation, thought
reflection and pictorial effect On the SEN
sitive."