BIBFRAME Work

Title

Living wands of the Druids

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Hughes, Jon G., 1951- (author )

Subject

• Druids and druidism (LCSH)
• Magic wands (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: BF1626 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 133.4/3 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index

Summary

"A practical guide to the creation of natural wands for magical work"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- What is a wand ? -- Purpose & function -- Spiritual conduit -- Enhancing the intention -- Amplifying the energy -- Purifying and cleansing -- Woodlore -- The nature of trees -- The physical structure of a branch -- The metaphysical structure of a wand -- Choosing the donor tree -- Location and surrounding influences -- Orientation -- The moon & the sun -- The season -- Weather -- Harvesting -- Crafting -- The workspace and tools -- Woodcraft techniques -- Initial meditation -- Visualisation -- Translation & rendition -- Storage & maintenance -- Wood types -- Which wood & why? -- Woods - Their attributes and virtues -- Yew -- Oak -- May Tree or Hawthorn -- Rowan -- Apple -- Holly -- Silver Birch -- Hazel -- Sycamore -- Ash -- Wych Elm -- Scots Pine -- Summary -- Wand types -- Rudimentary wands -- Appropriate uses -- Crafting a wand for casting -- Crafting a contact wand -- Entwined wands -- Appropriate uses -- Choosing entwining botanicals -- Ivy -- Holly -- Mistletoe -- Crafting -- Compound wands -- Appropriate uses -- Selecting wood combinations -- Crafting -- Rods -- Appropriate uses -- Preferred woods -- Crafting -- Staves & staffs -- Appropriate uses -- Preferred woods -- Crafting -- Adornments -- Curious wands -- The hooked wand -- The thorn wand -- The forked wand & listening wand -- The corkscrew hazel wand -- Protective wands and bundles -- Binding bundles -- Brewing wand -- Corkscrew hazel wand -- The flying stave -- Feathers as wands -- Bones as wands -- Malevolent living wands. Their crafting and use -- Using your wand/staff -- Cleansing -- Apposite spaces -- Potentialising -- smoke intensification -- Intentions -- Casting the intention -- Wand -- Staff -- Apotropaic bundles -- Using a flying stave -- Casting with a feather wand -- Casting with a bone wand -- Casting with the hand -- Annulling, undoing and reversing an intention using the original casting -- Device -- Casting a counter curse.

Authorized Access Point

Hughes, Jon G., 1951-. Living wands of the Druids

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:34.319245+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23217898

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc