Don’t touch that! Magical objects – a blessing or a curse

Don’t touch that! Magical objects – a blessing or a curse By Sarah Elliott How many times have you gazed at a mundane object in your environment and longed for it to do or be something magical? An iron that would press all your clothes, keeping them miraculously wrinkle-free? A self-filling coffee cup? Clothes that walked to the washing machine and then hung themselves up to dry. A vacuum cleaner that works without being pushed (wait we have that already!). Does that mean that the tech of our present would have been the magical objects of the past?   Maybe, you approach this with caution. After all, so many of us have watched Fantasia. Perhaps we should learn from the apprentice!   If magical objects aren’t part of our everyday lives, we can find them in stories. Fairy tales and folk tales are rife with them. Let’s flick through the pages of the magical object encyclopaedia and refamiliarise ourselves with some of the most popular. It’s all about the bling baby!   One ring. If only! Magical rings hold so much power so it’s no wonder writers like to call on them.    Tolkien, of course – the one ring to rule them all! In Norse mythology, Draupnir (they like to name magical items) is a gold ring owned by the god Odin which has the ability to multiply itself King Solomon’s ring had the power to summon demons and rule over them The Ring of Gyges renders the wearer invisible prompting all kinds of moral dilemmas! The Green Lantern ring can do almost anything depending on the willpower and skill of the wearer   For more popular magic ring books, click below: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/magic-ring   That’s just rings! We have other sparkling, spectacular jewellery like the Necklace of Raindrops by...
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