A common pebble or small stone, of texture and form allowing the surface to be sufficiently inscribed, serves as well as anything, and is easily discovered in the garden or on the roadside.
Such a stone should be well scrubbed with soap and water and dried completly. It may be covered with a white paint or left to it's natural surface, upon which the inscription is set, either incised with a sharp instrument or applied with coloured paints if there be a symbolic design or picture, or with India Ink where words are used. Generally both words and design together will serve with the best effect. The stone may be chosen for the value of its natural configuration, such a one of heart shape for a talisman pertaining to love, a cresant for some lunar influence, circular for the Sun etc. When the talisman is completed, it should be ritually dedicated and preserved in the same fashion as a charm. |
