# Hag Stone on Leather Cord

> 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.

Price: 19.00 USD · in stock

## About
Hold it to one eye at dusk and look through. That is the old custom with a hag stone: a gray flint pebble bored clean through by nothing but the patient work of water and time, strung on a length of waxed leather cord.No drill or tool has touched the hole. The sea alone made it, over years or decades of tumbling against sand and other stone, and that natural origin is the whole point. Each stone differs in shape, weight and the exact angle of its hole.Hag stones, also called adder stones or holy stones, are among the oldest protective charms of the British Isles, carried by fishermen and hung by cottage doors for generations. Folklore holds that looking through the hole at dusk lets you glimpse what is normally hidden, and that a hag stone hung at a threshold turns aside ill fortune and the attentions of the fae.DetailsNatural gray flint pebble, holed by the seaStrung on waxed leather cordEach stone unique in shape, weight and holeHow to useWear it on the cord, or hang it just inside a door or window. Some keep it for looking through, holding the hole to one eye at dusk or under a full moon, as the old custom describes. It is sold as a curiosity, with no medical or scientific claims.A small piece of the shoreline's patience, for your own threshold.