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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

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 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

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

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 45 mm sphere of polished tiger's eye from South Africa, amber and root-brown, with a band of gold light that slides across it as it turns in the hand.

$127.00

A polished palm stone of banded malachite from the Democratic Republic of Congo, ringed in moss green and near-black like the rings of a felled tree.

$29.00

A single smoky quartz point from Brazil, untreated, shading from clear at the tip to root-beer brown at the base, with threads of rutile inside: an old anchor stone for restless da

$24.00

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

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 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

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

A disc of Michoacán volcanic obsidian, lapped by hand to a black mirror that seems to swallow light, set in a simple wooden stand for candlelit scrying.

$48.00

A rough baton of true schorl, black tourmaline from Minas Gerais, grooved with deep striations and heavy in the hand: the ward stone that folklore sets beside a door to keep watch.

$14.00