Practical Magic Blogparty 2010

How to Make a Magic Wand

When making a Magical Wand there
are 3 requirements:

1) The wand must be made of 3 types of wood, 3 being a magic number.

* Wood must maintain it original characteristics in the finished wand so the wand remembers the spirits of the forest and tree from whence it came, and so that this spirit remains strong in the wand.

- to meet this requirement Granddad used wood from a big-leaf maple for the blade of the wand. This maple, with the help of the wind , arranged that it fall exactly where Granddad would find it.

* The wand must use one wood from an exotic land and of exotic colour so that the wand has knowledge of wonderful places and things.

- to meet this requirement Granddad made the handle of the wand from amaranth, a tropical flowering tree from South America. Amaranth is purple, the colour of royalty.

* One wood must be from a place where a miracle occurred, so that the wand has a prior experience with magic.

- to meet this requirement Granddad made the hilt of the wand from Oak which was part of the floor of the room in which our daughter was born. At the time Granddad did not know why he saved the wood, but he does now.

2) Between magic use, the wand must be kept in a cloth bag made especially for it. The cloth must be soft, warm and green, this protects its exotic colour and helps the wand remember the forest from which it came, and thus renew itself.

- Nana made a bag for this wand from a soft piece of green cloth from one of our daughter's baby clothes.

3) The Magic Wand and its bag must be made by someone who loves the Witch or Magician very much.

- our daughter's wand was made for her on her 10th birthday by her Granddad, the bag by her Nana, so it meets this requirement without question!

owl, spell book, magic treats, alter photo
and wand sketch by C Moore age 10

Many thanks to Granddad and Nana for making this wand!



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