Sound calls the spirits. Before there was a written spell there was a rhythm, and every tradition of magic has kept some instrument for it. In Haiti the Houngans and Manbos shake the sacred Asson rattle, much as a magician wields a wand, to raise spiritual energy and invite the Lwa and the dead into the rite. In the old magic of Europe it was the bell, chimed at each quarter of the circle to salute the elements and rung loud in every corner of a house to drive out whatever does not belong there. The Romans banged a bronze cymbal to send the restless dead on their way. And when a Siberian shaman beat his drum to enter the trance, the earliest phonograph caught invisible voices chanting along with him. Whatever your preference, a Witch needs a sound tool, because it is the sound that carries you into the visionary state and marks the moment the spirits arrive.
The drum is the oldest of them. Its heartbeat drums below the Sabbat dance, and our own Dumb Supper in Salem opens and closes with drumming. Beat it to raise the cone of power in circle, to call the Lwa at the crossroads, or to keep time under a Full Moon. Shake the rattle to summon or to banish. Ring the bell to seal the work.
Here you will find the drums, rattles, and bells we keep for our own rites, marked with the symbols of the Craft and made to be played, not hung on a wall. Pick one up, strike it once, and you will understand why sound has always belonged on the Witch's altar.
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