Heathen/Pagan & Eclectic Religious Supplies
Celtic art & crafts
Psychic Readings
Classes
Not so much New Age as decidedly Old Age
Because the entire shop is smaller than an average living-room, we don't have room to carry a great range and quantity of stock. Instead, we concentrate on a small number of items of very good quality, many of them handmade, at reasonable prices. If you want to find really good Wiccan ritual equipment, Celtic carvings, rune-stones etc., you needn't trawl all round the net ploughing through pages of New Age knickknacks for them - just come straight here.
Spells made to order ~
if we think they're ethical! |
We are also the ideal place to come for bespoke spells (provided we think they're ethical!) and seals, Tarot, clairvoyant and numerology readings, and general advice on pagan, psychic and/or magical issues. The atmosphere is friendly and free coffee is always available, so the shop doubles as an unofficial pagan social club (an amiable madhouse): although constrained (and indeed constricted) by the fact that it only takes about twelve people to fill it as tight as a sardine can.
Cheapest in the Upstate for crystals, wands and Tarot decks |
Our crystals, wands and Tarot decks are probably the cheapest (e.g. we charge $88 for the same wands which other shops are selling for$165!). Many of our items are available nowhere else in the Southeast, and a few are available nowhere else in the world. In particular, we seem to be one of the only places on the net, and in the world, which sells Pictish rune-stones - as well as Norse Futhark and Old English or Anglo-Saxon Futhorc runes. We expect shortly to be the only place in the world selling our own designs of I Ching dice and of portable Wiccan alters.
We also sell herbs, woods, naturals and resins commonly used in pagan rituals (including Dragon's Blood resin), and of rock incense. Many are things such as maidenhair and clary sage which are difficult to obtain; others may be available elsewhere, but can normally only be obtained in what may be inconveniently large and therefore expensive quantities.
Our Philosophy…
| Not so much New Age as decidedly Old Age, The Owl & The Raven is a fairy-free zone |
In particular, The Owl & The Raven is a fairy-free zone - and I'm not referring to anyone's sexuality here. We are prepared to carry anything involving genuine, folkloric fairies - which is to say sinister, dangerously skittish ones - but there will be no twee Victorian flower-fairies; or things encrusted with badly-made wizards carrying bits of colored glass pretending to be crystals; or cute cartoon dragons unless they are exceptionally well-drawn.
| We aim to concentrate as much on gods and male mysteries as upon goddesses and female ones |
Of course, we would probably make more money if we sold flower fairies and tin wizards, but the shop exists first and foremost as a ritual/religious exercise, honoring the gods and powers by serving the pagan community; secondly as a living work of art (such as performance art); and only thirdly as a commercial enterprise: though it does need to make a certain amount of money in order to survive!
Unlike many New Age shops, we are even-handed about gender, and try to carry as much stuff on gods and male mysteries as on goddesses and female ones.
| We carry religious items suitable for Buddhists, Christians and Jews as well as heathens/pagans |
We are also quite eclectic about religion. Although the shop caters mainly for heathen/pagans (including Wiccans), we also carry books, jewelry etc. suitable for Celtic Christians, and a certain amount for other faiths such as Buddhism or Santeria. We are planning to branch out into Jewish greeting-cards, menorahs etc. We are even considering carrying rosaries and Holy Water stoups!
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