Talk:Celts and human sacrifice

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[edit] A few things

This is an OK article, but it defiantly needs to be expanded and improved.

A few issues though, in this sentence "This dovetails with the three-fold death detailed in medieval texts." What does "dovetails" mean?

I presume this must be some American expression, but I've certainly never heard of it before, so it's not very good as a word that has to be internationally understood, can someone come up with a better term here.

One more thing is Tollund Man, he was killed in Denmark, and thus may not have been a Celt (more likely Germanic), so he may not belong here.

--Hibernian 17:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I removed this part from the article... "The Celts had three gods: Taranis, the god of thunder, Esus, the god of the underworld and Toutatis, the god of the tribe. Each god demanded a different sacrifice." As it sounds very suspect and unhistorical and was contributed by an anonymous user.--Hibernian 17:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "to dovetail" as "to fit together easily or conveniently,"[1] and says nothing about it being an americanism. Wikipedia can't be expected to define every term on the site- that's what Wiktionary is for.  ;-) Regards, Confiteordeo 14:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)