Anyone on here interested in Celtic paganism

[TheOldNorth]

A french pagan on youtube tell that it might be a legend invent by christianity to picture pagan as violent monster.
He beleive human sacrifice might have never exist.

No ideas if it might be true or not.

There certainly were sacrifices, all societies from the Romans, and Greeks to the Germans, and Celts were. It's just the frequency, and methods described by Roman authors after the outlawing of human sacrifice in Rome that are exaggerated and villianize the celts

[smurph]

Have you considered the main sources that we have of the gauls were when they were in a time of great desperation, also Romans tended to exaggerate such practices and their frequency as a form of propaganda or simple bias. The Romans also said that the gauls had sword that always bent on impact, and yet science has proven them wrong. They also accused the gauls of 'liking their own men more than their women' as a form of propaganda as well (because in roman society, being penetrated was a sign of emasculation) to say "We are real men, they aren't"
It's clear to me that a society like theirs wouldn't have even worked if they sacrificed, and had as many gay relations as the Romans state, just as they wouldn't have almost conquered Rome itself with sword that are constantly bending.

Well I don't know what they did as I wasn't there. But it's true that most ancient cultures practiced human sacrifice in some form or another. There's no reason for blind denial.

This fact, of course, doesn't make the other parts of their culture less interesting.