Teaching.... 3D Render, Digital Artwork by Henry1850

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Teaching....

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Two Sisters are shown above, the older one is teaching her sibling some of the basic druid skills she will need to learn in order to become a full druid priest (a druid with the knowledge and skills to manipulate nature)

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The Celtic peoples had a rich spiritual and religious life, and many ancient record mention them as practitioners of magic.

So, what kind of magic did the European and Irish Celts perform and how was it done?

Anyone could practice Celtic magic, but historically it was performed by Druids. Recorded uses of Celtic magic were rain making, invisibility, forgetting spells or creating invisible barriers. Celtic spells were cast using specific incantations and mentioning the name of spirits or gods. Amulets were used as vessels of magical power.

The Celts, like all other peoples, were devoted to magical practices, many of which could be used by any one, though, on the whole, magic was mostly practiced by Druids, who in many aspects were little higher than the shamans of other ancient nomadic tribe

Each clan, tribe, or kingdom had its own Druids, who, in time of war, assisted their armies by magic art. The ancient Roman historian Pliny writes about the priestly functions of the Druids, but associates them largely with magic, and so applies the name “magus” to them.

Even in the Celtic sagas, “Druidism” is often a synonym for magic.

The magical power of druids was exercised to a great extent over the elements, some of which the Druids claimed to have created in the first place, and sometimes the Celtic Druids were said to have even created the world.

Thus, it was said that druids could produce blinding snow storms, change day into night, rain showers of fires upon enemy armies, make trees look like armed men, fly by riding on the wind. Many believe druids had the ability to:

Make Rain

Invisibility and Metamorphosis

Make forgetting spells

Create Invisible walls or hedges

Throw "madness" at a victim

Create Spells and Incantations

Besides healing diseases, such charms and spells are supposed to cause fertility or bring good luck, or even to transfer the property of others to the reciter, or, in the case of darker magic, to cause death or disease.

Among Irish Celts, sorcerers could even use rhymes to put a man or beast to death.Celts extensively used amulets and jewelries as symbols of magic power.Some of these were symbolic and intended to bring the wearer under the protection of the god whom they symbolized. The symbol of a Celtic god is that of a wheel, probably representing the sun. As a testimony to this, numerous small wheel discs made of different materials have been found among Celtic tribes from Gaul and Britain.These were evidently worn as amulets, while in other cases they were offered to river divinities, since many were collected from river beds or fords. Their use as protective amulets is shown by steles or murals representing a person wearing a necklace to which is attached one of these wheels. In Irish texts a Druid is called Mag Ruith, explained as magus rotarum, because he made his Druidical observations by wheels. This may point to the use of such amulets in Ireland. A curious amulet, connected with the Druids, became famous in Roman times and is described by the historian Pliny. This was the “serpents’ egg” formed from the foam produced by serpents twining themselves together.

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