#glass magic

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~ books read in 2022 ~

#10: The Glass Magician by Charlie Holmberg

A late summer breeze wafted through the open kitchen window, making the twenty tiny flames upon Ceony’s cake dance back and forth on their candlewicks.

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Tiny Navajo Reads: Sea Glass

Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The next in the Glass Series that takes place in the world of The Chronicles of Sitia and Ixia, we see what happens now that Opal has discovered that she can drain a magician’s power from them, and uses it against those that would harm her. When word reaches the Council, Opal is ordered home to house arrest till the Council decides whether she is a threat to…

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Unusual Witch #3: The Glass Witch

Glass is created when sand or silica is heated until melted, fusing the crystals together into an incredibly beautiful and highly versatile - albeit fragile - material. Due to it’s transparency, it’s been used not only for practical uses like bottles and windows, but also sculptures and novelty objects. Glass, therefore, is also an incredibly diverse focus for a witch.

A witch using glass as a main focus of their craft has lots of options:

- When creating bottle spells or charms, use glass bottles you’ve enchanted to also be part of the spell.

-  Use beach glass, glass tiles, glass beads, and other glass objects with smooth edges in various colors as spell components with various correspondences.

- If you use sigil magic, try enchanting and using a glass fountain pen to create your sigils.

- If it’s within your means, try glassblowing to create your own sculptures. If that’s not possible, try looking in local thrift stores or craft markets for glass sculptures to use in spell work as enchantments or wards.

- Create a ‘suncatcher’ using bits of glass and wire, or painting a piece of glass, to bring joy and light into your home or ‘capture’ the bad while allowing the good to pass in.

If you think of more, feel free to add them! I’m sure there’s tons more to do!

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Going through the antiques we find at family-member-who-has-died’s house is both reminding me that the past was an interesting place, both dangerous and wonderful, and that there are things that aren’t common anymore/aren’t made anymore that have their own unique magical potential.

Like, I’m not going to find a guide to the magical properties of various kinds of antique glassware. But my dead relative was really into antique glassware so I have been handling a lot of it as of late. And there are a lot of things commonly used in magic that can be made out of glass (candleholders, plates, cups, bowls, bottles, jars, etc.) So I can’t help but wonder but wonder about the different magical properties that different kinds of glass might have.

Like, what are the magical differences between cut glass and pressed glass?

How do differences in how glass is colored affect color magic (aka color applied to the surface of the glass after the glass is made vs color that results from something added to the glass as it was being made?)

How does carnival glass’s iridescent coating affect the magic of the base color of the glass? And does the same thing apply to depression glass?

What are the magical properties of the various UV-reactive glasses (uranium, cadmium, manganese, leaded, etc.) and do those properties change when their molecules are being excited by uv light vs when they are not?

And that’s not getting into how the different categories of glass overlap. Or what the object made of glass is. Or what designs decorate it.

I’m never going to have answers to all of these questions but they are fun to think about and I am probably going to experiment a bit with the pieces of glassware that I have inherited.

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