{"product_id":"iron-nail-cross-protection-ward","title":"Iron Nail Cross Protection Ward","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld iron remembers. Before it was pulled from timber and bent into shape, it held a barn together through storms, or a door shut against something that wanted in. That memory doesn't leave metal easily - and neither does the work asked of it here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hand-forged nails, crossed and bound tight with red string - the old color, the color of blood and hearths and threshold magic, the thread that's tied to doorframes and cradles since before anyone wrote the reason down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolk charms like this one traveled through kitchens and cellars long before they hung in shops: nailed above a door, tucked beneath a mattress, hidden in the wall of a new house before the plaster went up. Iron to turn back what shouldn't cross the threshold. String to bind the ward and keep it from wandering off its post.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't decoration pretending at meaning. It's a working charm, made the way it's always been made - rough, deliberate, a little unsettling to look at, because the things worth warding against were never gentle either.\u003cbr\u003eHang it by the door. Rust doesn't weaken it, some say it feeds it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chest of curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54673127113050,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/0324\/6170\/files\/2827C58F-E25D-4154-BF1D-98D78BD79786.jpg?v=1788267965","url":"https:\/\/chestofcuriosities.co.uk\/products\/iron-nail-cross-protection-ward","provider":"Chest of curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}