Oh, it’s magic: The Irish witch contingent
Across the world, witchcraft is gaining momentum as pagan and Wiccan spirituality draws greater numbers of acolytes. But what of the Irish witch contingent? Sarah Taaffe-Maguire met four modern-day witches to find out more about life outside the broom closet
Barbara Lee
“I’m just really, really busy and Mercury is in retrograde, so everything is kind of like ‘ah feck’ . . . you’re lucky to get me at all,” says Barbara Lee. Busy schedule aside, what is life like as a south Dublin-based witch?
“There’s not much great mystique about me,” Lee says, “though, apparently, I do frighten small children sometimes. We don’t go around casting spells. We don’t go around wearing ...