The Wizard Den
Welcome to The Wizard Den, an ever changing Wizard information centre. The goal of The Wizard Den is to provide a little more detailed information on anything and everything associated with MacFie's Wizard Shop. Since the main focus of MacFie's Wizard Shop is wooden wands and their magical properties, one of the main themes of The Wizard Den will be trees. We will also provide a little more information on many of our other products, interesting Wizarding facts, our upcoming shows and festivals, and any current features or specials we have in our Online Store.
Current Feature: The Beech Tree
Magical Properties:
Wisdom, knowledge, focus, divination, healing, meditation and protection.
Interesting Facts:
Beech trees are one of the most northern growing deciduous trees in Europe and mark the border between the southern deciduous forests and the northern pine forests.
Beechnuts are an important food source for birds, rodents and at one point in time, people. They can be pressed to obtain oil to be used in lamps or cooking, or ground to make flour.
Wisdom, knowledge, focus, divination, healing, meditation and protection.
Interesting Facts:
Beech trees are one of the most northern growing deciduous trees in Europe and mark the border between the southern deciduous forests and the northern pine forests.
Beechnuts are an important food source for birds, rodents and at one point in time, people. They can be pressed to obtain oil to be used in lamps or cooking, or ground to make flour.
They can also be used to manage inflammation, pain, swelling, itchiness and dryness and they have anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant & ant-ipruritic properties.
Before the invention of paper, beech wood tablets were often in Germanic societies as a common writing material.
The Old English word boc and the Old Norse bok both have a primary meaning of beech, but it is also where we get the modern word for book. In modern German, the word for book is buch, where as buche means beech tree. In Swedish, the word bok means both book and beech tree.
The combination of thin smooth outer bark and a poor ability to heal itself when damaged, beech trees were ideal for carvings. This is one of the reasons why the earliest known wooden rune carvings were done on beech.
It parts of Germany it was believed that new born babies were plucked from hollowed out beech trees, rather than delivered by storks.
Before the invention of paper, beech wood tablets were often in Germanic societies as a common writing material.
The Old English word boc and the Old Norse bok both have a primary meaning of beech, but it is also where we get the modern word for book. In modern German, the word for book is buch, where as buche means beech tree. In Swedish, the word bok means both book and beech tree.
The combination of thin smooth outer bark and a poor ability to heal itself when damaged, beech trees were ideal for carvings. This is one of the reasons why the earliest known wooden rune carvings were done on beech.
It parts of Germany it was believed that new born babies were plucked from hollowed out beech trees, rather than delivered by storks.
Beech Wands & Rune Sets
To view our current stock of Beech wood products please visit our Online Store.
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