48 – Hour glass
- Physical description:
- Wooden (possible mahogany) hour glass with four turned supports.
- Museum classification:
- Working Tools
- Size:
- 150 mm high
- Information:
Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'You can keep your clocks, watches and digital light affairs. For the witches working in the south west insist on seeing their time pass. For seeing time flow by, there never has been a better instrument devised by man than the sand glass. When a witch is building a spell, creating a potion or is engaged in some magical operation, the time factor plays an important part in every stage of the operation. Example, to stir the cauldron anti-clockwise for two falls of the sand. You see, we are again making use of spirit force, unlike the mechanical mechanism of a clock with its tick-tock-tick, the silent knife-like movement of the sand as it streaks downward imparts a sense of life and of a living thing moving within. Simply put, the witch is working with a visual spirit force.'
- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Wood, glass, sand
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'You can keep your clocks, watches and digital light affairs. For the witches working in the south west insist on seeing their time pass. For seeing time flow by, there never has been a better instrument devised by man than the sand glass. When a witch is building a spell, creating a potion or is engaged in some magical operation, the time factor plays an important part in every stage of the operation. Example, to stir the cauldron anti-clockwise for two falls of the sand. You see, we are again making use of spirit force, unlike the mechanical mechanism of a clock with its tick-tock-tick, the silent knife-like movement of the sand as it streaks downward imparts a sense of life and of a living thing moving within. Simply put, the witch is working with a visual spirit force.'