Dragon Blood Untumbled, 1 lb

Raw and unpolished. Rough pieces with natural faces and edges, not tumbled smooth, each one its own size and shape.

A full pound, sold by weight. The count varies with the size of the pieces, generally enough to fill a bowl or supply a season of grids and gifts.

Honest naming. Dragon Blood is a trade name, and the material is generally not a true jasper; we say so plainly.

• Approximately 1 pound of untumbled stones, sold by weight; piece count and size vary
• Material: the green-and-red stone sold as Dragon Blood, typically an epidote-bearing rock, often sourced from Madagascar or Australia
• Naming note: Dragon Blood Jasper is a trade name; the material is generally not a true jasper, and the red is iron-bearing mineral rather than anything to do with dragons
• Raw pieces have natural edges; handle with a little care
• SKU: GUJASDB

The name is the whole appeal, and the trade knows it. The story goes that the green is the skin of a slain dragon and the red its blood, which gives the stone a courage story built in, and modern crystal practice has run with exactly that: Dragon Blood is kept for courage, strength, and standing your ground, a stone for the moment you need some nerve. These attributions arrived with the stone in recent decades and we file them as contemporary; there is no old folk record for a stone the trade named in the modern era.

What is true is that the red really is iron, which is the same reason blood is red, so the story is a better guess than most trade legends. Left untumbled, the stone keeps its raw faces, which many practitioners prefer for grid work and altar pieces, where the unworked surface reads as the stone still being itself.

1. Cleanse the batch on arrival with smoke or moonlight, and skip long soaking.
2. Build a grid with the raw pieces, where the natural faces sit well together.
3. Set one on the altar or the desk as a courage stone through a hard season.
4. Carry a smaller piece, mindful that raw stone has edges.
5. Give them away; a pound goes a long way, and this is a good stone to hand to someone.

• Dragon Blood Tumbled Stones, 1 lb: the same stone polished smooth, for pockets and pouches.
• Jasper Stone Arrowhead, Assorted: the true jasper, for comparison in the hand.
• Jasper Kambaba Pyramid, 25mm: another honestly-named trade stone.
• Jet Tumbled Stones, 1 Pound: the grounding register by the pound.
• White Sage Smudge Stick: the arrival cleanse for a pound of stones.

Is Dragon Blood a real jasper?

Usually not. It is a trade name for a green-and-red stone, typically an epidote-bearing rock rather than a jasper, which is a chalcedony. We name it as what it is.

What does untumbled mean?

The stone has not been polished smooth in a tumbler. It keeps its raw broken faces and natural edges, which many practitioners prefer for grids and altar work.

Where does the name come from?

The trade legend that the green is a dragon's skin and the red its spilled blood. It is a modern story rather than old folk tradition, though the red really is iron, which is why blood is red too.

What does practice keep it for?

Courage, strength, and standing your ground. These are contemporary crystal attributions that arrived with the stone, not old lore, and we say so.

How do I cleanse them?

Smoke or moonlight suits them. Keep them dry between uses, and handle raw pieces with a little care, since unpolished stone has edges.