Making Fire
So it's been about a year since I've posted anything here, but it's not because we stopped working! For many months, the Fire Craft crew has been trying to make fire, using pyrite, quartz and a very special fungus called tinder fungus. I did this myself years ago, so I decided to just point people in the right direction and let everyone figure things out on their own. That's the typical approach in transmitting the Crafts, and in any case it worked out well because often I needed to take care of my daughter when everyone came over. So, last year late summer they went to the woods to find fungus. They found both false tinder fungus ( fomes fomentarius ) and true tinder fungus, aka chaga. They bought some pyrite at different rock stores in town, and prepped the fungus. And then over the winter, they tried their hand at banging the rocks together to make sparks and get them to alight on the fungus. Click click click , over and over, came the sound ...