 Pliny's account has been considered to have contributed largely to the popular depiction of druids today, as white-clad wise men performing sacrifices in the forests and equipped with golden sickles.Chateaubriand incorporated a dramatized version of Pliny's scene in his "Les Martyrs", in which the druidess Velleda plays a part.In the "Astérix" comics, the druid Getafix is often depicted among oak trees, robed in white, and bearing a golden sickle.