Zhong Kui Obsidian Pendant Necklace

Zhong Kui, queller of unsettled spirits, carved in black obsidian.

Obsidian is volcanic glass, the edge of a volcano cooled to black. It has long been kept for protection, worn close to steady the attention and quiet the noise of other people's moods.

Zhong Kui (钟馗) is the tradition's fiercest protector, the scholar turned demon queller whose image has been hung in doorways for over a thousand years to keep what unsettles a household outside it. Carved on obsidian, protector and stone say the same thing twice.

For anyone who wants the firmest of guardians close, worn on a beaded cord.