Today is publication day for A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment, edited by Andrew Sneddon, which is the fourth volume in a six-volume Cultural History of Magic published by Bloomsbury. Each volume is an edited collection of chapters, and I contributed the chapter entitled ‘Authorities and Control’ to the Enlightenment volume. The chapter focusses on the de facto and de jure decriminalisation of magical crimes across Europe in the eighteenth century before considering the sources of authority in the magical tradition in the Enlightenment era. The chapter concludes with a case study of the prosecution and decriminalisation of magical crimes in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.