experienced and invoked in and through any and all of these varied embodiments. Some of course who read stories of the more astonishing effects of this very concretely mediated divine power, in the process of conserving and protecting life, of healing and enhancing it, will talk of magic. They may talk correspondingly of charms instead of prayers when Celtic folk invoke such divine power incarnate in saint or element for such purposes, as happens in many a saint’s life, in a Lorica or other prayer-form.