Talismans & Amulets.

A sprig of rue in sterling silver, branching into seven tiny charms, moon, key, heart, flower, dagger and serpent among them, each soldered on by hand in the old Neapolitan style.

$58.00

A single acorn, cap and all, cast in recycled sterling silver from a mold of a real acorn: strength held in reserve, small enough to close in your fist, on a fine silver chain.

$18.00

A cast bronze Green Man, his beard and wreath of oak leaves in shadow-throwing relief, on a forest-green waxed cord: the leafy face of medieval church eaves, made to wear.

$21.00

Thor's hammer at pendant scale, cast in rough-textured pewter from a mold based on an archaeological find, on a braided leather cord.

$27.00

The Icelandic wayfinder stave, eight arms around a center, in dark oxidized lead-free pewter on a leather cord: a sign said in folklore to keep its bearer from losing the way.

$24.00

Two hands cupping a crowned heart in hand-finished sterling silver: friendship, love and loyalty, the old Galway emblem, just under an inch tall on its own silver chain.

$52.00

An open triquetra knot in satin pewter, about an inch across, on a waxed cord you knot to any length: three arcs with no beginning and no end.

$17.00

An old ward in a small, exact geometry: a sterling silver pentacle about the width of a coin, its star recessed and darkened, on a fine sterling chain.

$34.00

An open palm cast in brass under antique silver plating, engraved in a North African pattern: the hamsa, worn face-out by old custom to turn an envious look away.

$29.00

Solid brass, cast in one piece and heavier than it looks: the ankh, ancient Egypt's sign of life, on a waxed black cord, polished bright in front and left to darken behind.

$22.00

A hinged crescent moon locket in oxidized sterling silver, charcoal-dark with the shine left only on its raised grain, hollow enough to hold a curl of hair, a pinch of herb or a fo

$42.00

A polished drop of Baltic amber holding a small winged insect, caught mid-flight some forty million years ago.

$64.00

A single horseshoe nail, turned by hand into an adjustable ring with its squared head left in place: cold iron, the old folk charm against the fae and ill fortune, worn every day.

$21.00

Two pale rowan twigs bound into a cross with red wool, no knot and no glue, as the old rhyme instructs: one of the oldest folk charms of Scottish and northern English cottages.

$17.00

A cobalt glass eye blown at a wood-fired furnace near İzmir, in rings of blue, white and black: the nazar of folk tradition, hung by doorways to catch the envious glance.

$15.00

The heart-shaped pointer of the old talking board, cut from solid brass and pierced with a round window, to wear at the throat or carry for the questions you half know already.

$28.00

A gray flint pebble holed clean through by the sea alone, strung on waxed leather: the hag stone, an old British threshold charm for doors, windows and dusk.

$19.00