And perhaps my will is more than Nature can support. He wrote about the Druids having strict laws, with the elite controlling public and private sacrifices. Flicking a switch and having my living room lit up at night could fall within this category, but I’m being a bit facetious.
I think perhaps the difference is in the intention – in both magic and prayer, we are hoping for a result, but the results are often different.In prayer, asking for the gods to solve a problem for us rarely, if ever, works in my own experience. There isn’t lightning shooting from fingertips or fire balls sparking from one’s eyes. And they were very powerful.And, of course, you'll learn the secrets of the magic of the Druids.Druidry is far more than historic Celtic leadership. Etain, wife of Eochaid, was carried off by Mider through the roof, and two swans were seen in the air above Tara, joined together by a golden yoke. 1 Druids also produced blinding snow-storms, or changed day into night-feats ascribed to them even in the Lives of Saints. The A wonderful story in an old MS. respecting Diarmuid is connected with the threatened divorce of the lovely Mughain, as no prince had appeared to her husband the King.
To me, awen is magic, though perhaps not in the spellcaster’s sense of the word. Magic includes transformation, and questing the awen will indeed change someone. DRUIDICAL MAGIC. One of the Irish MSS.

It is a practice of opening your inner ‘psychic eye’ so that you can open yourself to visions and messages from the Divine. And being a druid, I realize the Awen doesn’t flow without that opening.So when trying to deal with a situation, I don’t resort to imposing my will, gathering and raising energy to direct at a problem. They evoke images of mystery and magic, of ancient knowledge of the Earth and her seasons, of star-lore and herb-lore, of primal wisdom and inner knowing. A certain dwarf magician of Erregal, Co. Derry, had done a deal of mischief before he could be caught, killed, and buried. Do we think of Gandalf, brandishing his staff and saying mightily “You Shall Not Pass!” or his mushroom-addled fellow, Radagast, who lives in the woods, talks to animals and, according to the latest Hobbit films, has a rabbit-powered all-terrain sleigh and brings hedgehogs back from the dead?Of course it’s none of these things. The Druids had a belief in reincarnation, and could read the future by the observation of the flights and calls of birds.Killing a victim was one of the ways the Druids had of reading omens, they would choose someone, they then plunged a dagger into the chosen one’s stomach, then depending on the flaying of the victim and the spray of blood, messages of future events were gleaned.Although believing all animal life to be sacred, animals were still hunted for sustenance. A tree may have a life span of hundreds of years.To make their magical mixtures, the Druids had a specific workshop which was extremely important to them, their workshop contained a storeroom of all that was significant to them, a place to perform their rituals, and a work space where they made their potent, and magical concoctions. Both approaches may produce your artefact but the later takes more effort and the end product loses much of the inherent strength and beauty of the wood. It is also often said that magic should be the last recourse after having tried all mundane means of solving a problem. Joyce has said, "The Gaelic word for Druidical is almost always applied where we should use the word magical--to spells, incantations, metamorphoses, &c" Not even China at the present day is more given to charms and spells than was Ireland of old. Note that this power is based on popular culture view about druids, so the historical accuracy isn't the top priority. At the banquet in honour of the alliance, the Druid told the lady the names and qualities the chiefs assembled, particularly mentioning the graceful Diarmuid. Despite what little is actually known about ancient ... with nature, justice and magic. There he learned it was held by another brother, also a Druid, in an enchanted place. It would be easier to do that in Ireland or Scotland than in Australia.