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Boline – a witch’s utility knife

  • August 25, 2010 2:36 pm

  A boline (aka bolline/boleen) is a witch’s utility knife! Unlike the athame, which is not used to cut things on the physical plane, a boline is used to cut whatever may need cutting on the physical plane in preparation for (and during) a ritual or ceremony including cords, herbs, and ribbon. Additionally, the boline is used [...]

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Athame: a witch’s ritual knife

  • August 19, 2010 12:08 pm

Check a witch’s cupboard, and usually you will find an athame (generally pronounced AH-tha-may) among his/her ritual tools or on his/her altar. Simply put, an athame is a ceremonial knife used by Wiccans and other witches for directing energy during a ceremony, ritual or spell. Athames also represent the masculine (god) energy, and is used to signify [...]

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Author Isaac Bonewits passes over to the Summerlands (1949 – 2010)

  • August 12, 2010 4:47 pm

  Neopagan author Issac Bonewits passed away today (8/12/2010) after a short struggle with cancer. Born Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits on 10/1/1949 in Royal Oak Michigan, Issac Bonewits was a druid priest, writer, teacher, and psychic, as well as a self proclaimed ne’er-do-well and trouble-maker.

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13 Preambles of Wicca by H.P. Thomas Moore

  • August 11, 2010 1:12 pm

In addition to the “Wiccan Rede” there are also 13 articles that are followed. These preambles as they are called aid in attuning the self and becoming one with the earth and the spiritual world through study, self exploration and action. Each has lessons that are learned and not all are easy to complete. It [...]

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