It's official (in the UK): Druids are for real

Druids -- nature-worshippers claiming affiliation with the ancient religion of pre-Christian Britain -- have been recognized as an official religion for tax purposes in the UK.

Emma Restall Orr, founder of The Druid Network, added: “The Charity Commission now has a much greater understanding of Pagan, animist, and polytheist religions, so other groups from these minority religions – provided they meet the financial and public benefit criteria for registration as charities - should find registering a much shorter process than the pioneering one we have been through.”

Follow-up on this one in the works, mainly on the question of legal definitions of religion and the need to assign religions some official status.