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druid's grove or village
green. There, the man and woman share vows to love, respect, and protect
one another, with the druid serving as witness. Following the vows comes
an exchange of tokens, prayers for the couple's health and fertility,
and finally a party and feast. Druids themselves, rarely celibate,
usually choose to marry and raise children. Some circles prefer their
druids to limit their choice to "suitable" mates: druids or bards, and
perhaps elves, dryads, or sylphs. Independent rural folk like tinkers,
rangers, Gypsies, or foresters also constitute good choices. Love can be
blind, but a druid generally prefers a mate of neutral alignment, from a
rural background, who follows the druidic faith. Funerals. Most druids
bury their dead (although some prefer cremation), returning the body of
a loved one to the earth near a sacred grove. Mourners celebrate the
deceased through poems and prayers, and a hired bard may offer
additional memorials in song. Finally, the presiding druid blesses the
departed spirit and--since most druids believe in reincarnation--prays
for its safe rebirth. Friends and family then hold a wake to remember
the departed person through song, dance, and merrymaking. Initiations.
Worthy aspirants seeking to enter the druidic order must be initiated by
an inner circle member. The initiation takes place at a moot or in a
sacred grove on a holy day. The candidate, after being purified with
holy water, takes the druidic oath: a promise to preserve the balance of
the world, to follow the druidic ethos, to respect the freedom of other
druids in and beyond the circle, to act as a guardian of Nature (or the
deity that personifies Nature to the Order), and to live true to the
druidic order and keep its secrets safe.

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