folklore.

Three cast brass coins in the old square-holed pattern, a drawstring pouch and a plain-spoken translation of the I Ching: six throws to build a hexagram, one line at a time.

$27.00

A wide, shallow bone china cup in soft ivory, with a faint key of symbols fired into the glaze, for reading the leaves the old kitchen-table way.

$38.00

Coarse sea salt darkened with activated charcoal and hearth ash, for the old folk custom of drawing a dark line across a threshold.

$13.00

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Silver-backed mugwort leaf and flowering top, wild-crafted in the Carpathian foothills, for a small, bitter, aromatic cup before bed.

$14.00