Forked Hawthorn Wand

This wand was created using a branch of storm-blown Hawthorn wood, which I discovered on Imbolc of 2023. It measures approximately 32 inches/81 centimeters in length. After debarking the piece and allowing it to fully dry, I went about carefully smoothing the surface of the wood, making sure to preserve any larger thorns present on tne piece. Once I was satisfied with the texture of the specimen, I blackened it with a stain made of sun-thickened Linseed Oil and Hearth Soot from the interior of our Wood Stove, which I used to coat the wand, layer after layer, for days. In the end, having thoroughly layered the black pigment onto the wood, I used Wisefool's Oil (a ritually enlivened oil of empowerment, which also serves as a lovely wood conditioner) to polish away the excess, and then sealed the whole piece with Wisefool's Glaze (a personally developed wood varnish made from an array of precious and potent arboreal resins, such as Dragon's Blood, Storax, and Black Frankincense.) Finally,