The Compendium

What the craft is made of

Stones, herbs, colours and hours — what practitioners have taken them to mean, and how widely that reading is shared.

All 115 Crystals & stones 41 Herbs 40 Candles & colours 10 Materials 8 Sabbats & moon phases 16

8 entries

Honey Material Sweetening — the gentlest working most people own, and one of the oldest preserved foods on earth. Appears in 0 workings Iron Material Cold iron — the one thing British and Irish folklore agrees about more than almost anything else. Appears in 0 workings Mirror Material A surface that gives you back — used to see with, to send back with, and in a great many houses, to cover up. Appears in 0 workings Moon Water Material Water left out under the moon — a young practice, popular for good reasons, and honest company for a beginner. Appears in 2 workings Salt Material The cheapest protection there is, and one that most traditions arrived at independently. Appears in 3 workings Thread Material String, and what people do with it — measure, bind, count, tie off. Older than nearly everything else here. Appears in 1 working Water Material The most-used tool in the craft, and the one nobody thinks to list among their tools. Appears in 3 workings Wood ash Material What the fire leaves — and, in a great deal of European custom, the part that was actually kept. Appears in 0 workings