Cunning Craft Boline With Elder Handle

Paul’s Cunning Craft range of bolines is part of our commitment to inflation busting Every Day Witch Prices. EDWP! These are unique hand forged heirloom quality witches bolines with hand carved wood handles using the sacred woods of the Celtic Ogham. As Paul’s skills and creativity have grown over the years his artisan range of ritual witchcraft tools with complex artistic embellishments, crystals and complex finishes can run into $100s… The Cunning Craft range are elegant, simple, and beautiful, but without fuss and embellishments and of smaller size, perfect for the smaller hand, altar and modest budget. If you want one of Paul’s unique pagan ritual weapons but are minding your pennies then this is a great place to start! They are also more rustic with hammer marks and other imperfections and a simple brushed finish.

This boline, perfect for traditional witchcraft, ceremonial high magick, Druidry, kitchen witchcraft, herbalism and wicca was forged from iron. It is a simple rustic blade, so there are imperfections from forging such as hammer marks and pits from where the iron out gassed impurities. A simple burnished or brushed finish gives a pretty iron sheen. Tempered twice for two hours for maximum hardness, these are sharp! That said cutting plants will dull the keenest blade and it is recommended to resharpen the blade with a kitchen knife sharpener after use.

12 inches in total length, of which the blade and shank is 7 inches.

The handle is hand carved from wonderful witchy Elder! The goddess tree of life and death! Sacred to the moon, a fitting handle for this moon shaped blade for cutting healing herbs!

Paul cuts all the wood himself. He asks and blesses the tree first and assures the tree that it’s gift will be used to create beautiful heirloom ritual tools. The tree is cut with sharp tree snips to ensure the tree is not damaged and will continue to thrive. After a year or more of seasoning, Paul hand carves the handles himself and sands them to a fine furniture finish of 400 grit. The handle is then oiled with our Luna Ignis anointing oils to make the grain pop and to protect the wood.

Unique hand forged heirloom quality boline by our pagan blacksmith. Paul is a practitioner of traditional witchcraft and ceremonial magick.

Iron is sacred to Mars.

Similar to the small hand sickle that druids used, these bolines are perfect for cutting healing herbs. The crescent moon shape suggests a link to the goddess and healing magick.

The Tubal Cain mythos also has iron as a tool of our will and apostasy, Yahweh after the expulsion from Eden told Adam and Eve they would have to scrabble among the thorns for their food... But Tubal Cain, 7th son of Cain had other ideas and discovered the working of iron and became the first blacksmith. To the Tubal Cain currents of witchcraft iron is therefore a tool of our will.

In Traditional English cottage witchcraft the Fae Folk are scared of iron and therefore iron tools can be used to protect against or control the Fae.

Each of Paul's bolines are unique. There is no plan beforehand, the boline is allowed to manifest as it wills, Paul just helps it along.