#witch tool

In the Cornish Craft traditions, a Keppen Wand is a small stave of magically empowered wood, meant to be used as a highly innocuous and easily secreted wand. This tradition ostensibly arose out of the need for secrecy during times when Witchcraft Laws endangered those who used tools such as ritual wands. As such, very small wands that could be passed off more easily as mundane allowed a practitioner to carry their magical implement with them while maintaining deniability about the purpose of the tool. 

In the spirit of Cornish magical traditions, I felt moved to make such a wand using a small piece of wild Holly wood that spoke to me. Having harvested the wood, I went on to de-bark it and dry it (a process which can be quite tricky, given Holly's high propensity for splitting when dried without specialty equipment) before shaping and smoothing the piece. I then bored a small hole through the top of the wood and proceeded to seal it with its naturally pale color using my homemade Wisefool's Glaze (a magically empowered wood varnish made from an array of potent arboreal resins.) When the varnish was fully cured, I strung the Keppen Wand onto a length of recycled leather cord that I outfitted with a vintage resin bead, which can be slid up or down the cord to adjust the loop size for one's wrist, and then I fumigated the piece with a mixture of dried Holly Flowers and Dragon's Blood.

The wand itself measures approximately 4.75 inches / 12 centimeters in length  and the cord measures approximately 9 inches / 23 centimeters from knot to wood.

Tellement d’inspiration et de fascination envers cette pépite du MWM 💕 une paire de chandeliers d’autel, utilisée jadis par Ralph et Audrey Harvey et le Temple d’Artemis, de 1952 à 2013. Ces merveilleuses superpositions de cires colorées sont les témoins des rituels saisonniers auxquels ils ont participé.

Ce qui m’amène à toujours plus de pensées et de questions...

Et vous, comment les trouvez-vous ? A quoi vos propres chandeliers d’autel ressemblent ? (Les miens n’ont vu que des bougies blanches jusque là, et en bien moindre quantité haha. J’espère bien les voir se transformer en sculpture de cire mutante arc-en-ciel avec le temps 💕🙏🏻)

Est-ce que vous utilisez toujours les mêmes chandeliers ? Personnellement j’en ai plusieurs mais j’utilise le plus souvent pas mal de photophores 🤷🏻 Récupérez vous les restants de cire de vos sorts quand il y en a, et si oui qu’en faites vous ? ^^

Combien de rituels et de bougies faut-il consumer d’après vous pour arriver à un tel résultat ? 🤔 (allez une ptite fourchette)

Quand on pense à une bougie et sa symbolique, on ne voit souvent que la partie de la flamme, le fait qu’elle brûle et produise chaleur et lumière. Qu’est-ce que la cire vous évoque dans la bougie ? 🕯

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We all know witches love glass jars and bottles. But, creating spell jars and burying them outside is not always cost-effective, environmentally friendly, or even safe. Imagine finding a powerful spell jar and opening it... that could go wrong quickly. And if you live in an apartment or dorm, finding somewhere to bury a spell is difficult enough, without having to bury a solid container.

A much more cost-effective container would be a dried corn husk, or a large outer cabbage leaf, or even a non-bleached paper towel. Wrapped around the spell ingredients and tied with cotton string, the spell can be buried and will return to the earth, grounding the magic.

I went to my local book shop ( indigo ) and picked up a book and a little box that comes with two crystals

Poisoner’s Prayer Beads

Update: SOLD

Black spinel beads on steel chain. Onyx and garnet accent beads with a Poison Oak reliquary. Harvested during Saturn’s rule with stone’s under his rule.

Saturn rules many of the baneful herbs used by poisoner’s and witches.

Also, my wand! Just the tip atm 🤐

New pretties now in the shop! I have three new antler pendants available, and two new witch bottles... these ones are uncorkable so you can fill them with your own goodies and potions and carry them with you! <3

Everything is still 10% off for the rest of December, so hurry while you can!

This unique scepter was crafted from a storm-blown bough of Elder, and it measures approximately 31 inches/ 79 centimeters long

The wood used came from an Elder Tree found growing in the crook of a forested Crossroads, which was ritually propitiated in the name of the Elder Mother. After collecting, de-barking, drying, and cutting down the piece, I carefully accentuated the natural 'bone-like' shape of the top with a blade and sandpaper, before sanding and polishing the whole surface until it was suitably smooth. After that, I slowly allowed the wood and inner pith of the stave to "soak up" a ritually crafted varnish made from an array of potent arboreal resins—such as Dragon's Blood, Storax, and Amber—which was then slowly dried by the hearth to strengthen the overall integrity of the piece. Once that process was done, I applied one last coat of the same varnish as before, which I polished with a homemade oil of sorcerous empowerment to give it a glossy sheen and to underscore the natural beauty of the wood spalting, before fumigating the finished scepter with a mixture of Elderflowers and Honey Amber in a simple rite of hallowing.