draoitheac

Updated: May 29, 2025

And as the Danes surpassed other people in strength, so, according to my narrators, they also excelled all others in wisdom, or rather in Draoitheac, or Magic, for they were powerful sorcerers, they said, compared with whom the fairy men of the present day knew nothing at all, at all! and, amongst other wonderful things, they knew how to make strong beer from the heather that grows upon the bogs.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

And as the Danes surpassed other people in strength, so, according to my narrators, they also excelled all others in wisdom, or rather in Draoitheac, or magic, for they were powerful sorcerers, they said, compared with whom the fairy men of the present day knew nothing at all, at all; and, amongst other wonderful things, they knew how to make strong beer from the heather that grows upon the bogs.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Desire for novelty Lives of the lawless Countenances Old yeoman and dame We live near the sea Uncouth-looking volume The other condition Draoitheac A dilemma The Antinomian Lodowick Muggleton Almost blind Anders Vedel.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

And as the Danes surpassed other people in strength, so, according to my narrators, they also excelled all others in wisdom, or rather in Draoitheac, or magic, for they were powerful sorcerers, they said, compared with whom the fairy men of the present day knew nothing at all, at all; and, amongst other wonderful things, they knew how to make strong beer from the heather that grows upon the bogs.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest