WGNS 2
The Properties of Cat’s Eye shells
As with all eye-shaped things, this shell is an excellent choice to keep curses from targeting you. Because of it’s naturally protective nature, it could plausibly be used in warding, to “close” the home against predators, or perhaps to seal in something water-related. Due to its use as a perfumery fixative, this shell could also feasibly work to slow the fading (evaporation) of, and increase the longevity of, something water-related, or lend an animalistic note to the spell or working.
Things I might use Cat’s Eye shells for:
Witch-warding jewelry
Circles or home wards, to keep a predator out or deflect curses/scrying
Circles or wards, to seal in wisdom or intuition
Spells or wards, to increase the longevity and potency of wisdom or intuition
Spells or circles, to evoke a sense of animalism
Things Cat’s Eye shells could theoretically be used for:
Reflecting curses back to the sender
Chaining an opponent that could be considered a predator of some kind
Enhancing the strength and duration of psychic visions
Blocking or chaining psychic powers
Calling on animal spirits or animal-related gods
Notes:
In the first episode of season 1, Sam notes that their father’s room is protected by both salt and Cat’s Eye shells. Since the shells primary function is to prevent the desiccation of the snail, and salt is quite good at desiccating things, this is an interesting combination. Because the shells would not have been powdered (Sam wouldn’t have been able to recognize them if they had been), I would assume they were in use to perhaps defend against the “predatory” spirit of the episode, and/or to weaken her psychic powers. The salt would probably have acted doubly as a ward against spirits in general, and as an amplification of the shells’ spirit-weakening properties.
