Celtic Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide

The article reviews 'Celtic Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide' by Brigid Ehrmantraut published by Thames & Hudson (London) in 2026. The book will be of interest to specialists of folklore and ethnology, in which such subjects as charms, medicine, curses and maledictions are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the phenomena that may be called “druidic”, alongside pisheogary (“superstitious”) practices known to – and practiced by Celtic speakers from the third century BCE until the twenty-first century, extending geographically from La Vayssière in southern France and north to the Isle of Iona in Scotland