Medium Tree of Life Cast Iron Cauldron, 6" Philip Carr-Gomm Power and protection

Power and protection

Its protective fame is ancient: the genus name Hypericum comes from the Greek for over an apparition

Low John is a curio of Hoodoo and rootwork tradition

the pair of flames standing for two people

and its ceremonial role left the record the spellbooks would later draw on: echinacea given as an offering to the spirits

Medium Tree of Life Cast Iron Cauldron, 6" Philip Carr-Gomm Power and protectionThe cauldron is one of the oldest magical objects in the Western imagination. Long before it became a symbol of the witch's craft, it was a practical tool of transformation: the vessel in which raw things became something new, in which the act of cooking crossed the line into the sacred. In Celtic mythology, cauldrons held particular power, the Cauldron of Dagda that fed the hungry and the Cauldron of Cerridwen from which the bard Taliesin drank and