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🔥Why the Celts Fought Naked: The Fierce Art of Sacred Combat

🔥Why the Celts Fought Naked: The Fierce Art of Sacred Combat

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Will Blunderfield
Jun 13, 2025
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To the untrained eye, the idea of warriors charging into battle without a stitch of armor might seem suicidal. But to the ancient Celts, stripping bare before battle wasn’t madness — it was magic. It was power. It was a declaration of divine masculinity, of embodied courage, and of communion with nature and the gods.

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