Description

Origin & Traditional Use

A frame drum is a skin stretched over a shallow wooden hoop, played by hand. It is the oldest drum design in the world and is used across the globe in music, healing, shamanic journeying and religious ceremony.

Uses in the Work

Drum a steady four-beat rhythm, around four beats per second, to drive yourself into trance before scrying, journeying or spirit contact. Beat the drum at each quarter while calling the demons of the elements to raise the energy of the circle, and use a single strike to mark each stage of a rite. Drumming over a sigil while vibrating the Enn builds the charge, and a slow heartbeat rhythm is used to call the dead in necromantic and ancestor work.

Pairs Well With

Mugwort – 1 oz; Frankincense Tears – 1 oz; Black Obsidian Scrying Mirror 6″

Lore

The frame drum is one of the oldest instruments in the world. It appears in the hands of priestesses of Inanna and Cybele, and Siberian shamans called theirs the horse that carries them between the worlds. Medieval clergy condemned it as a witches’ tool for summoning the Devil to the sabbat.

What You Receive

13″ across the front of the drum that sits 3 1/2″ tall.