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The whole shop.
Daily staples, mushrooms and adaptogens, pantry foods and teas, with the aromatherapy and arcana shelves.
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Brahmi (Bacopa) Capsules
Bacopa monnieri, the brahmi of Ayurvedic tradition, hand-cut, shade-dried and milled into simple capsules: one each morning with breakfast.
$19.50

Turkey Tail Capsules
Turkey tail, the banded bracket fungus of fallen hardwood, made from 100 percent fruiting bodies and dual-extracted into plant-based capsules, with no fillers, grain or mycelium on
$33.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Dried Amla Berries
Sun-dried Indian gooseberries from Uttar Pradesh, wrinkled, chewy and bracingly sour, with no sugar or sulfur added: the fruit behind chyawanprash and one of the three in triphala.
$16.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Shatavari Root Powder
Shatavari, the tuberous root of Asparagus racemosus, grown in Madhya Pradesh, shade-dried and milled to a pale ivory powder: a rasayana of Ayurvedic tradition, stirred into warm mi
$21.50

Mushrooms & adaptogens
He Shou Wu Powder
Prepared fo-ti root, steamed with black bean liquid until near-black, then milled to a powder that smells of molasses and dried fig.
$27.50
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Astragalus Root Powder
Stone-milled astragalus root from Shanxi, fine as flour and the color of pale straw: mild, sweet and almost beany, for stirring into soups, broths and congees the old way.
$18.00
Mushrooms & adaptogens
Eleuthero Root Extract
A deep tea-brown tincture of eleuthero, the hardy shrub of the cold forests of the Russian Far East and northeast China, slow-extracted over six weeks for a morning ritual.
$22.00

Longevity
Ginseng Root Slices
Coins of six-year-old Panax ginseng root from Jilin province, slowly air-dried and hand-sliced, to simmer with jujube dates or tuck into a slow-cooked broth.
$36.00
Herbal tinctures
Motherwort Tincture
Motherwort tincture, dark olive-brown and boldly bitter, made from aerial parts cut at first bloom along half-wild fence lines and field edges.
$27.00
Herbal tinctures
Burdock Root Bitters
A tincture pressed from burdock's long, dark taproot alone: bitter, earthy and faintly sweet underneath, taken in a little water before meals in the old bitters tradition.
$20.50
Herbal tinctures
DGL Licorice Chewables
Small, dense chewable tablets of licorice root with most of its glycyrrhizin removed, deep with malt and anise, to chew or let melt slowly before a meal.
$19.00
Herbal tinctures
Slippery Elm Bark Powder
Finely milled slippery elm inner bark from sustainably managed Appalachian trees, stirred into warm water as a smooth, old-fashioned gruel.
$16.00
Herbal tinctures
Marshmallow Root Tea
Pale, linen-colored marshmallow root, harvested young in the Balkans and steeped cold overnight into a smooth, mild, faintly silky tea to sip through the day, chilled or gently war
$13.50
Herbal tinctures
Blue Skullcap Tincture
A tincture of fresh flowering skullcap, Scutellaria lateriflora, deep amber-green and faintly grassy: a plain roadside herb that nineteenth-century American herbalists held in high
$23.50
Herbal tinctures
Lemon Balm Tincture
Fresh lemon balm leaf, picked and macerated the same day in cane alcohol, so the tincture keeps the bright citrus snap of a leaf crushed between two fingers.
$18.00
Herbal tinctures
Passionflower Tincture
Passionflower leaf, stem and flower, extracted 1:4 in 40% grain alcohol: a deep olive-brown tincture, faintly grassy, for a quiet evening ritual.
$21.50
Herbal tinctures
Hawthorn Berry Cordial
A garnet-dark cordial of frost-picked hawthorn berries from the Carpathian foothills, rounded with raw honey: plummy, tart and faintly of the hedgerow.
$24.00
Herbal tinctures
Ginkgo Leaf Capsules
Ginkgo biloba leaf extract in capsules, from the oldest tree species alive: one with breakfast, one with lunch.
$32.00

Daily staples
Selenium
The trace mineral Brazil nuts are known for, in one small, precisely measured daily tablet.
$15.00
Daily staples
Bamboo Silica
Silica from the stems of mature bamboo grown without pesticides, milled to a pale green-white powder light as pollen: one or two capsules daily, as part of a balanced routine.
$29.00
Daily staples
Vitamin E
Mixed-tocopherol vitamin E from non-GMO sunflower, in honey-colored softgels: one with a meal, or one pierced by the mirror for a dry cuticle, the old-fashioned way.
$17.50

Daily staples
Zinc Lozenges
Zinc gluconate in a dense, slow-dissolving lozenge, mineral first and peppermint second, with no dyes, no sugar and no syrup: a small tin for the coat pocket.
$12.50

Daily staples
Kelp Iodine
Ground oarweed, hand-cut from cold Atlantic water off the Scottish coast and air-dried, in a capsule that still smells faintly of the tideline.
$14.00
Daily staples
Vitamin K2 (MK-7)
Vitamin K2 as MK-7, made by fermenting chickpea extract with the culture used for natto, in deep-gold softgels.
$27.00

Daily staples
Calcium & Vitamin D3
Calcium citrate and vitamin D3 in a matte white tablet with the faint, dry smell of chalk, taken two at a time with an evening meal as part of a steady daily routine.
$18.00

Daily staples
Methylfolate
Folate in its active form, L-methylfolate, in a tiny capsule of ivory-colored powder made by slow fermentation.
$19.50
Daily staples
Vitamin B12 Sublingual
Methylcobalamin drops, deep translucent red and fermentation-derived, taken under the tongue on rising: a common pick for people who eat little or no animal food.
$16.00
Daily staples
Liposomal Vitamin C
Vitamin C held in sunflower phospholipid: a pale gold gel as thick as good honey, kept in amber glass.
$36.00

Divination Tools
Scrying Ink & Silver Bowl
A shallow silver-toned bowl and a vial of dense black ink: one drop turns plain water into a dark, faintly rippling mirror, the old art of water-gazing made simple.
$36.00

Divination Tools
Astrological Brass Astrolabe
A brass astrolabe reproduction, cast and hand-engraved with a zodiac ring and a rotating rete pierced to show named stars, its parts turning just as the old instruments did.
$95.00

Divination Tools
Ogham Staves Reading Set
Twenty staves of seasoned hazel, each notched by hand with one letter, or few, of the early Irish tree alphabet, tied with linen and packed with a printed guide.
$30.00

Divination Tools
Spirit Board & Planchette
A birch talking board printed in an antique typeface, with a heart-shaped planchette on felt glides: the Victorian parlor object, faithfully reproduced for candlelit evenings and p
$46.00

Divination Tools
Crystal Ball on Wooden Stand
An eight-centimeter sphere of flawless optical glass in a turned hardwood cradle, clear enough to hold the whole room upside down at its heart.
$58.00

Divination Tools
Moon Phase Tarot Deck
A complete 78-card tarot drawn in ink and deep indigo, with the waxing and waning moon in every border and matte silver-gilt edges, boxed with a booklet of traditional meanings.
$32.00

Divination Tools
Elder Futhark Rune Set
Twenty-four Elder Futhark runes burned into pale birch discs, with a blank rune, a folded guide to each meaning and a pouch of undyed linen to keep them in.
$28.00

Divination Tools
Brass Pendulum on Chain
A faceted teardrop of solid brass on a fine eighteen-centimeter chain, weighted to swing a clean, steady arc: the diviner's old way of asking yes, no, or not yet decided.
$20.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Two-Headed Coin of Fortune
A gaffed brass coin with the same proud eagle on both faces, weighted to pass for ordinary: a lucky pocket-piece that can only ever land one way.
$18.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Whale Vertebra Fossil Ornament
A single fossilized whale vertebra from Morocco's Miocene sea beds, about ten million years old, ochre and gray mineral where bone once was, and entirely one of one.
$68.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Antique Apothecary Bottle Set
Five hand-blown apothecary bottles in amber and cobalt glass, corked and labeled in old druggist's script: artisan reproductions of the vials that once lined a chemist's shelves.
$45.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Raw Pyrite Sun Cluster
A raw pyrite cluster from the clay mines of Navajún, Spain: brassy cubes intergrown at sharp, near-perfect right angles, fool's gold from one of the few places known for cubes like
$22.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Ammonite Fossil Pair
A single Madagascan ammonite, sawn through its spiral and polished into two mirrored halves: the chambered shell of a sea creature some 150 million years old.
$26.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Preserved Luna Moth in Glass
A farm-raised luna moth, Actias luna, pale sea-green with long trailing tails and moon-shaped eyespots, preserved under glass in a slim wooden frame after its natural week of life.
$38.00

Curiosities & Oddities
Cabinet of Small Wonders
Nine small drawers, each with a brass knob, a felt lining and a handwritten label: a fern fossil, a chip of iron meteorite, a shark's tooth turned to stone, and other quiet marvels
$120.00

Mercury-Glass Scrying Orb
A hand-blown, double-walled glass sphere from a Bohemian workshop, silvered inside in the old mercury-glass way.
$54.00

Ritual & Incense
Blessed Sea Salt Ritual Jar
Coarse gray sea salt, hand-raked from the tidal marshes of Guérande and sealed in a small corked jar: for casting circles, marking thresholds and the old rituals of a pinch.
$12.00

Ritual & Incense
Dragon’s Blood Incense Cones
Twenty small hand-rolled cones bound with true dragon's blood resin, dark red-brown and slow to burn, with a warm, sweet, faintly spiced smoke closer to amber than flowers.
$10.00

Ritual & Incense
Cast-Iron Cauldron Censer
A palm-sized cauldron of sand-cast iron on three stubby legs, with a looped handle and fitted lid, heavy enough to hold a burning charcoal disc and a scatter of resin.
$29.00

Ritual & Incense
Beeswax Ritual Candle — Black
A pair of hand-dipped tapers in pure beeswax, colored a deep matte black, burning with a clean, steady flame and a faint honey scent beneath the dark.
$14.00

Ritual & Incense
Myrrh Gum Resin
Reddish-brown lumps of raw myrrh, hand-harvested from wild trees in Somaliland: faintly medicinal in the hand, warm, balsamic and slightly sweet on the coal.
$15.00

Ritual & Incense
Frankincense Tears Resin
Pale gold hojari frankincense tears, tapped by hand from wild Boswellia sacra in the Dhofar groves of Oman: the temple incense of four thousand years, for a charcoal disc and a qui
$16.00

Ritual & Incense
Palo Santo Holy Wood Sticks
Sticks of aged palo santo, Bursera graveolens, cut only from branches and trunks that fell on their own, with the honeyed, faintly citrus scent the holy wood is known for.
$13.00

Ritual & Incense
White Sage Smudge Bundle
A hand-tied wand of broad, silvery white sage, farm-cultivated and never wild-harvested, wound with cotton thread and slow-dried to hold an even ember.
$11.00

Talismans & Amulets
Silver Crescent Moon Locket
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

Talismans & Amulets
Amber Insect Inclusion Pendant
A polished drop of Baltic amber holding a small winged insect, caught mid-flight some forty million years ago.
$64.00

Talismans & Amulets
Cold-Iron Horseshoe Nail Ring
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

Talismans & Amulets
Rowan & Red Thread Witch Charm
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

Talismans & Amulets
Evil Eye Nazar Charm
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

Talismans & Amulets
Brass Planchette Talisman
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

Wanderer's Protection Amulet
A hand-cast bronze medallion with an old compass-rose device, finished with a trace of rowan ash, the traveler's tree of folklore: for roads that fork strangely.
$34.00

Talismans & Amulets
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.
$19.00