Arcana.

A small handbell of solid brass with a turned wooden handle, sand-cast and tuned by ear in India: one clear note to open the working, and another to close it.

$34.00

A pale gold splash of citrus, lavender and clove after a nineteenth-century toilet-water formula, patted on the neck or poured into wash water, as Caribbean and Latin American hous

$17.00

A hand-dipped taper of true bayberry wax in a coconut-wax base, sage green and scented of bay and balsam, for the old New England custom of burning it down on New Year's Eve.

$29.00

Ten quick-light bamboo charcoal discs, foil-wrapped in a roll, each dimpled to cradle resin or herb: the small, quiet fire beneath every censer and home altar.

$9.00

Dried Mediterranean rosemary, hand-bundled in unbleached cotton twine: the herb of remembrance, burned at doorways in old folk custom, now a gentle smoke for clearing a room each w

$10.50

A hand-plaited rope of sweetgrass about a foot long, green and grassy at first, deepening toward vanilla and warm hay the longer it rests in a drawer.

$9.50

Mysore-style masala incense, hand-rolled in South India around thin bamboo cores: a dry sweetness between cedar and warm milk unlit, opening into rounder, creamier sandalwood smoke

$12.00

True Siam benzoin, Styrax tonkinensis, in amber-brown lumps and tears that smell of vanilla and almond even in the jar: the old apothecary's gum benjamin, for charcoal or a pan of

$14.50

Sun-gold tears of copal blanco from the highlands of Chiapas, bright with pine resin and orange peel, burned on charcoal as offering smoke since before incense had a name.

$15.00

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 raw, carbon-black chunk of shungite from Karelia in northwest Russia, essentially the one place on earth it is found in quantity: about two billion years old, heavy in the hand,

$18.00

A pocket tumble of bloodstone from India, deep green flecked with iron-red: the warrior's talisman of old, hard enough for daily carry, for the days that call for nerve.

$12.50

Three small, iron-dark hematite tumbles from Brazil, heavy as hardware and polished to a near-mirror sheen, for a pocket on an unsteady day or the corner of your desk.

$13.00

A raw chunk of pale blue aquamarine from the pegmatite fields of Minas Gerais, Brazil, still showing the hexagonal faces of its beryl crystal: the sailor's stone of folklore.

$19.50

A tumbled rainbow moonstone from Rajasthan, milky and faintly gray, with a blue flash that travels under the surface as it turns in your hand, a companion for moonlit nights.

$14.50