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Witchcraft - 6 / 15 / 2024
witchcraft  [see Wicca]
     magical technology
coven
    hierarchical
        high priestess & high priest
    egalitarian
the magic circle
    quarters
        elements
            air
            fire
            water
            earth
        guardians, wards, watchtowers
        pentagrams
            invoking
            dismissing / banishing
raising power
    trance
    meditation
    wine, drugs
    scourging
    dance
    binding
    rites, spells & chants
    the great rite
        symbolic / actual
        chalice & athame
            water & air
            intuition & thought
            subconscious & conscious
tools
    athame, boline
    sword
    wand, staff, stang
    chalice, wine
    water
    censer, incense, thurible
    paten, salt
    cingulum, cords
    scourge
    cauldron
consecration of tools
Book of Shadows
skyclad / robed
divination [see Divination]
deosil / deisiol [deshill] - sunwise / clockwise [sundial]
widdershins - contrary / counter-sunwise
time [see Time]
    sabbats
        lunar
            month [29 1/2 days]
            full or new
    equinoxes    
        vernal
            around March 21
        autumnal
            around September 21
    soltices
        midsummer
            around June 21
        midwinter
            around December 21
    cross-quarter days
        Imbolc [immolk]
            February 2
        Beltain / Beltine [beyaltinah]
            April 31
        Lugnasadh [loonasah]
            August 2
        Samhain [sarwen]
            October 31
[see History of Wicca]
 
An ABC of Witchcraft - Doreen Valiente
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft - Raymond Buckland
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft - Denise Zimmerman, Katherine A. Gleason
Eight Sabbbats for Witches - Janet Farrar, Stewart Farrar
Mastering Witchcraft - Paul Huson
What Witches Do - Stewart Farrar
Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Age - Vivanne Crowley
Witchcraft Today - Gerald B. Gardner
Witchcraft Today: The Modern Craft Movement - Chas S. Clifton editor
Witchcraft Today: Modern Rites of Passage - ibid editor

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