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Alchemy: n.a medieval chemical art whose
principal objectives were to find the panacea, and to transmute base metals
into gold./ The power to transform something base into something precious. |
Alchemy: The forerunner of chemistry,
originating in Alexandria during the 1st century CE, when Egyptian metallurgy
was fused with Greek philosophy and middle easter mystiasm. Stated goals
were the transmutation of base metals into a gold and the discovery of
the Pholosopher's Stone. These are regarded as metaphors for personal enlightenment. |
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Amulet: n. an ornament or gem worn on
the body as a protection against evil spirits. |
Amulet: An object charged with power
for protection, health, etc. They are usually found and are natural objects
or gifts. |
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Angel: n. a messenger of God. a member
of the lowest order in the celestial hierarchy, classified by Dionysius
the Areopagite as: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers,
principalities, archangles, angles./ a person of exceptional goodness or
loveliness./ (theater pop) the financial backer of a theatrical production./
radar echo from an invisible target./ an English gold coin, stamped with
a figure of St. Michael and worth varving sums. |
Angel: The cabbalistic archangels that
guard and watch over the four quarters./ divine messenger. |
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Astrology: n. the art of predicting or
determing the influence of the planets and stars on human affairs. |
Astrology: Divination through the correlation
of Earthly event with celestial patterns |
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Athame: not in dictionary |
Athame: A consecrated ceremonial knife
used by witches and magicians; usually black-hilted. It is never used for
drawing blood. It is used to focus and direct energies. |
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Aura: n. the atmosphere of a thing, "an aura of romance."/ (opiritualism) a vauge luminous glow surrounding a figure or object./ (med.) a warning of an impending epileptic fit. It may take the form of a sound, sight, smell or feeling not perceptible to others. AU-RAL adj. |
Aura: The 'biomagnetic field that
encompass' all living things which can be seen by sensitive people and
on film. |
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Besome: n. a stiff sweeping broom made
of twigs. |
Besome: a broom made of nature materials
that symbolize the balance of masculine and feminine./ used to sweep unwanted/
negative energies from the circle./ used by the High Priestess or Handmaiden./
can be used to cast the Circle with the phallic end. |
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Black Magic: magic used in the service of
evil. |
Black Magic: literally negromancy /magic
used that goes against 'An it harm none do what you will./ the type of
magic attributed to Satanism./ magic that forces anothers will. |
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Book of Shadows: not in dictionary. |
Book of Shadows: a book in which spells, rituals,
evocations invocations etc. are written down traditionally by hand./ a
book of ritual experiences. |
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Cartomancy: not in dictionary |
Cartomancy: divination using tarot cards,
playing card etc. or any other card system. |
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Cauldron: n. a large deep cooking pot
of iron used over an open fire. |
Cauldron: usually a cast iron pot on 3
legs, a feminine tool used to contain water or fire in ritual./ can be
used in place of the chalice in a wind blessing. |
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Ceremony: pl. ceremonies n. rites or ritual
an occasion observed with ritual./ any formalities observed on a special
occasion. / punctilious, formal behavior to stand on ceremony to insist
on formal politeness or rigid regard for convention without ceremony casualty./
brusquely |
Ceremony: the actions of ritual that take
place within the Circle./ the festivities and ritual of a special occasion
eg. Sabbats. |
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Chakras: not in dictionary |
Chakras: the seven energy centers in
the body (crown, third eye, throat, heart, stomach, solar, plexus, base/root./
correspond to the Kabbalah./originated in Eastern mysticism./ correspond
to different colours to the different energy centers. |
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Chalice: n. the cup used at the celebration
of the Mass (Eucharist) |
Chalice: the cup used to represent the
feminine forces of creation in the wine blessing./usually made from materials
from the earth: ceramic, porcelin, glasses, pewter, etc./ correspond to
water in the west and its attrib. |
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Cingulum: pl. cingula n. the part of a
plant between the root and stem./ the ridge around the base of the crown
of a tooth./ the clitellum of worms. |
Cingulum: the rope that holds the ritual
robe up/together./ usually braided./ can indicate, by colour rank, tradition,
coven etc./ can be used in knot magic, the withe ladder./ a rope that radially
marks out the magic circle. |
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Circle: 1. n. (geom) a plane figure
with a bounding edge (circumference) all points which are equidistant from
a fixed point./ (pop.) the circumference./ the area of intersection of
a sphere by a plane./ a group of objects on the circumference of a circle.
/ a group of persons with a common interest or an exclusive group within
society, "court circles" to argue in a circle to base a conclusion
upon a premise which is itself derived from the conclusion to come full
circle. (esp. of ideas) to return to the point of departure by a circuitous
path to run around in circles to achieve nothing because one one is in
a dither. |
Circle: the area in which a sacred space
is created by energy./ where the rituals of Wicca are performed./ an area
set apart from the ordinary world in which the new realities may be touched
upon./ can be an area of protection./ can be an area where energies are
contained to be released in the magical workings./ can be drawn with magical
symbols. |
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Conjure: pres. part. con-juring. past
and past part. conjured. v.t. to summon up ( a spirit) by invocation./
to produce by sleight of hand "to conjure a rabbit out of a hat"/
(rhet) to urge with pleading, "he conjured them to keep it secret"./
v.i. to practice sleight of hand to conjure up to bring vividly before
the imagination as though by magic. |
Conjure: the act of raising energy for
a specific purpose, most commonly seen as spellcraft, erecting the circle
etc. to bring forth. |
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Coven: not
in dictionary |
Coven: a group of 3 or more witches
who practice wicca./ witchcraft on sabbats and Esbats. / traditional number
of witches are 13, one of them being the High-Priestess and the other 12
consisting of an equal number of men and women. |
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Cowan: not in dictionary |
Cowan: a person uninvolved in Wicca/Witchcraft./
in a church or temple setting those who have not been dedicated // neophyted/
initiated into that group./ some one who attends rituals (ie as a guest)
and is not involved regularly. |
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Craft: n. a trade or occupation that
requires skill in the use of the mind and hands, "the craft of fiction"/
the members of a trade collectively, a guild. / cunning, deceit, guile./
(pl craft) a boat, or vessel, or aircraft. |
Craft: a name referring to the Art
of Witchcraft or Wicca (the Craft). |
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Dedicant: DEDICATE: pres. part. DEDI-CAT-ING
past and past part. DEDICATED v.t. to devote to sacred purpose./ to devote
to any serious purpose, inscribe (a book etc.) in someone's honour. DED-I-CAT-EE
n. the person to who a thing is dedicated. |
Dedicant: a peron who has gone through
an initiatory experience to become a practioner and student of Wicca./
someone new to Witchcraft who is studying to be a priest/ess of Wicca.
A person who wishes to DEDICATE his/her life to the Gods. |
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Degree: n. a step or stage in ascending
or descending series or process, "to improve by degrees"./ a
step in line of descent," degrees of kinship./ a relative amount,
"he must accept some degree of responsibility"./ a measure of
intensity or gravity. "a second degree ?)./ (stret) social rank, "men
of low degree"./ (law) a gradation of criminality, "murder in
the first degree."/ a grade or title conferred by universities (and
most U.S. colleges) to mark academic achievement./ masonic rank/ (gram)
on of 3 grades (positive comparative, superlative) in the comparison of
adjectives and adverbs. (phys. symbol) a division of a scale of measurement,
eg. a unit of temperature on any thermometric scale./ (math symbol) 1/360
of the angle that the radius of a circle describes in a full revolution./
(algebra) the power to which a term is raised (90graden xn is x to the
ninth degree)./ (geog. symbol) 1/360 of the circumference of the earth,
measured for latitude from the equator, for longitude from the meridian.
One degree latitude or longitude is about 69 miles. |
Degree: a heirarchical system of 3 or
more initiations indicating levels of education in Wicca and/or spiritual
develop ments and advances. |
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Demon: n. an evil spirit or devil./
a wicked, destructive crature./ a person relentless insome specified respect,
"a demon for work"./ an indwelling compulsive force, "driven
by a demon of ?" |
Demon: a Christian concept of a physically
manifesting entity that is against thr Christian God, therefore it has
no validity in Witchcraft. |
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Deosil: not in dictionary |
Deosil: the motion of the sun from East
to West that is mimiced in Wiccan circles as the motion in a clockwise
direction in the Northern Hemisphere. |
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Dichotomy: pl. DI-CHOT-O-MIES n. a division
into two opposing parts./ (astron) the phase of the moon, or of the inferior
planets, when half the disk is seen from the earth to be illuminated./
(biol) a repeated forking into two. |
Dichotomy: the duality of nature of polar
opposites seen mainly as the feminine/masculine aspects of nature, most
commonly seen as the Godness and the God. |
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Divination: n. a divining of foretelling
of the future or the future or the unknown by supernatural means./ guessing
by intuition. |
Divination: the act through many different
mediums of foretelling the past, present and future events. |
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Ecletic: 1 adj. taking from different
sources what seems most suitable for one's purpose (esp. in the philosophy
of those who, like the Neoplatenists, combined the essentials of other
schools of thought, or, in the arts, of those who combine different styles)./
not confined to one source or to one point of view, an eclectic editorial
plicy. a. n. an eclectic philosopher, thinken writer, scientist, etc. EC-LEC-TI-CAL-LY
adj. EC-LEC-TI-CISM. |
Ecletic: the collecting from other traditions
and spriritual background to create a new system of ritual and spiritual
practices that is "right" for that individual. |
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Element: n. one of the simplest parts
into which something can be divided, or a component of a composite whole./
something which is present in small quantity in a larger whole, "there
is an element of truth in what he said"./ (pl) the simplest and most
basic of parts of a branch of knowledge, "the elements of mathematics"./
(pl.)(?) atmospheric forces, "to brave the elements" (to froce
oneself to go out into the storm)./ (pl.) earth, air, fire, and water,
formerly regarded as the basic constituents of the material universe./
(?) the natural habitat of an organizm (water, dry land etc.)./ (chem.)
any of more than 100 substances that never have been separated into simpler
substances by ordinary chemical means (cf. compound). / any distinct part
of a composite device, eg. each of the individual lenses of an objective./
(eccles.) the matter of a sacrament (ie. the material thing or action,
eg. the water in baptism or the imposition of hands in holy orders, which
take on a Sacramental significance). esp (pl.) the bread and wine of the
Eucharist./ (elec) the resistance coil, wire, of an electric heater, kiln,
etc. "to be in (out of) one's element" to feel utterly at ease
(lost, constrained), "he is in his element playing with children". |
Element: the four basic assembly blocks
of creation of air, fire, water and earth and are assigned specific attributes,
anglels, spirits, directions, colours, etc. |
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Elemental: 1. adj. pertaining to the primitive
forces of nature./ (hist.) of one of the four elements (earth, air, fire,
water)./ elemetary a.n. a spirit identified with one of the primative forces
of nature. |
Elemental: the spiritual beings that reside
in the 4 basic assembly blocks of creation which are assigned specific
attributes and directions. (Air:East:Sylph; Fire:South:Salamander; Water:
West:Undine; Earth:North:Gnome). |
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Esbat: not in dictionary |
Esbat: a time when witches gather together
to celebrate the Goddess (and the God) at her lunar phases, mostly on (or
about) the full moon, by performing rituals within the Circle. |
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Esoteric: adj. (of religious, mystical
or philosophical teaching of practice) with a meaning that is understood
only by those who have received the necessary instruction or training./
trained to understand such teaching or practices./ difficult ot understand./
with a private or secret meaning or pruposed, the essteric language of
a school. ES-O-TER-I-CAL-LY |
Esoteric: knowledge that is secret and
mysterious in which those properly prepared are alloud to learn and experience. |
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Evoke: pres. part. Evoking past and
past part. E-VOKED v.t. to cause to be expressed or made manifest in responce,
his words evoked a strecim of associated ideas./ to summon (a spirit) by
the use of magic. |
Evoke: to draw down a distinct energy
form into a properly prepared person or thing so that person becomes that
being./ voluntary possession. |
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Evokation: n. a calling forth, evoking. |
Evokation: the act of drawing down an energy
form into a purpose or thing./ the act of invitation to voluntary possession. |
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Fairly: 1. pl. FAIR-IES (foklore) a
small supernatural beings, capable of interventing in human affairs, usually
in order to help. 2. adj. of or relating to fairies. |
Fairly: the supernatural beings that
have been known to reside in hollow hills, bogs, forests, the mists etc./
elves, gnomes, leprechauns, etc./ the sidhe in Celtic mythology./ nature
spirites that can sometimes be seen and heard./ spirits that can manifest
on the physical plane to help or hinder humans. |
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Familiar: 1. adj. knowing
intimately, familiar with every detail./ accustomed, well known by frequently
repeated experience, a familiar routine./ much seen, a familiar figure
at concerts./ (of personal relations) close and pleasently free from formality./
presumptuous, impudent. 2. n. a familiar spirit./ (Roman Catholic Church)
a member of a pope's or bishop's household rendering certain domestic services,
though not menial ones. |
Familiar: an animal pet (ie. cat dog,
snake, bind, etc.) in which there is a psychic bond between pet and owner
which share psychic experiences. |
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Fortune telling: n. a person who claims to foretell
the future and makes money out of the claim |
Fortune telling: see Divination. |
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Geomancy: n. divination by random figures
or lines on the ground, or on paper |
Geomancy: divination using geometric patterns
on the earth. |
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Ghost: 1. n. the specter of a person
appearing afteer their death, an apparition./ a slight trace, a glimmer,
"not the ghost of a chance"./ a ghost-writer./ (phys) a false
line in a line spectrum due to the defective ruling of the diffration grating./
(optics) a secondary image or bright spot caused by a defect in the lens
of an instrument to give up the ghost to die. 2. v.t. to act as ghost-writer
of (a book)./ GHOST (meteor. ?) for global horizontal sounding techniques
for collecting information about the atmosphere through balloons. |
Ghost: a person or animal that has
left their physical body at death and has not passed on to the Summerland
and manifests on the physical realm through sight, sound, and touch. |
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Gnome: n. a member of a race of small
misshapen imaginary beings, origionally guardians of the earths subterranean
treasures./ a goblin or dwarf. / a pithy saying, aphorism. |
Gnome: the elemental supernatural being
that lives in the earth and is attributed to be the spririts of the North
and is the representitive of the element Earth. / a species of sidhe that
live in caves and under the earth. |
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God: n. (in polytheistic religion)
a being to whom worship is ascribed./ an image of such a deity./ an idolized
person or thing, "money is his God". GOD (in monotheistic religions)
the spreme being, seen as the omnipotent creator and ruler of the universe.
THE GODS pl. n. the theater audience up in the gallery./ the gallery itself. |
God: a male deity who is cocreator
of the multi-universe. |
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Godness: n. a female deity. |
Godness: a female deity who is co-creator
of the multi-universe. |
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Handmaiden: n. a handmaid. |
Handmaiden: assistant High Priestess./ the
keeper and protector of the book of rituals./ the stage manager of Wiccan
rituals. |
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Herbal: 1. n. (hist) a book dealing
with plants, esp herbs. 2. adj. relating to, or made of herbs. |
Herbal: a medicinal remedy or magical
concotion made out of plants and roots. |
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Herbology: not in dictionary. |
Herbology: the knowledge and practice of
using herbs for magical and/or medicinal purposes. |
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Initiate: 1. vt. pres. part. IN-I-TI-AT-ING.
past and past part. IN-I-TI-AT-ED to cause to begin, "to initiate
an investigation"./ to instruct in the fundamentals of a subject.
/ to introduce ceremonially into a society, etc. 2. adj. having been initiated.
3. n. someone who has been initiated |
Initiate: a person who has been inducted
into Wicca as a first, second or third degree./ a person initiated into
the Craft of the Wise. |
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Invocate: invoke pres part IN-VOK-ING
past and past part. IN-VOKED v.t. to appeal to (God, a deity etc.) in prayer
etc./ to ask for in supplication./ to refer to for support etc. "he
invoked his special powers to justify the action". |
Invocate: a petition./ a prayer. to ask
the gods /goddesses/ elementals/ spirits etc. to join one in a ritual. |
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Invocation: n. the act of invoking God,
the Muses, etc. for aid, inspiration etc./ prayer, incantation etc. used
in invoking. |
Invocation: the act of a prayer./ petitioning./
the act of asking the deities/spirits/elemtials/etc to join one in a ritua. |
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Kapnomancy: not in dictionary. |
Kapnomancy: the use of a mirror in scrying
divination. |
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Karma: n. (Buddhism and Hinduism) the
power, resultingfrom an individul's volitional acts, which determines his
cycle of reincarnations begore he attains release from this world./ (Buddhism
and Hinduism) the sum total of the acts done in one stage of a person's
exhistence, which determine his destiny in the next stage./ (Jainism) a
form of matter which can contaminate a soul and postpone its attaining
Nirvana. |
Karma: ation/ the natural blancing
of the thoughts and actions of any individual from lifetime to lifetime./
what actions/thoughts one manifests will be returned at a later time or
life. |
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Legend: n. a story, handed down from
the past, which lacks accurate, historical evidence but has been, and may
still be, popularly accepted as true./ a body of such stories./ (hist.)
a story of the life of a saint./ (hist.) a collection of such stories./
an inscription, esp. on a coin or medal./ an explanation or comment beneath
a photograph or cartoon eg. in a newspaper. / a key to a map. |
Legend: a story from the past that may
have a basis in fact but remains speculative. |
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Lithomancy: not in dictionary. |
Lithomancy: use of an opaque serface for
divination by scrying. |
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Magic: n. the art which claims to control
and manipulate the secret forces of nature by occult and ritualistic methods./
the practice of this art./ any mysterious power or phenomenon which defies
analysis or explanation./ the art or practice of producing illusion etc
sleight of hand. |
Magic: the act of manipulating reality
through will, sometimes by the use of spells./ the energy of amulets. |
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Magician: n. a person who pratices magic. |
Magician: a person who pracices a certain
form of magic, usually the type of slight of hand or Ceremonial Magic. |
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Mysticism: n. the doctrine or belief that
direct spiritual apprehension of truth or union with God may be obtained
through contemplation or insight in ways inaccessible to the senses or
reason./ the experience of such direct apprehension of truth or union with
God. |
Mysticism: an esoteric search for a higher
level of being. |
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Myth: n. an old traditional story
or legend, esp. one concerning fabulous or supernatural beings, giving
expression to the earthy beliefs, aspirations and percetions of a people
and often serving to explain natural phenomena or the origins of a people
etc./ such stories collectively./ (loosely) any fictitous story or account
or unfounded belief "the myth of his superiority". / (loosely)
a person or thing with no real existence "his rich uncle is a myth". |
Myth: the stories of specific cultures
that tell about gods/goddesses/spirits and other supernatural beings who
helped to create culture in taht area./ the stories that represent cultural
traditions and values. |
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Necromancy: n. the art of foretelling the
future or magically achieving some purpose by communication with the spirits
of the dead. |
Necromancy: divination by communicating
with the dead./ the act of raising the dead to talk to them about the past,
present and future events. |
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Neophyte: n. a beginner, novice./ a new
convert to a religion esp. an early Christian./ (Roman Catholicism) a recently
ordained priest or new member of a convent. |
Neophyte: someone who has completed certain
requirements to continue to study for priesthood in wicca. |
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Numerology: not in dictionary |
Numerology: the use of numbers for divination
purposes. |
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Occult: 1. adj. beyond the range of
normal perception./ secret, mysterious esoteric./ dealing with magic, alchemy,
astrology, etc. "the occult sciences". 2. n. (with "the")
that which is occult, the supernatural v.t. (astron) to obstruct the view
of (a heaveanly body) by passing between it and the observer on the earth./
v.i. (astron) to become hidden from sight. |
Occult: that which is hidden and secret./
that which uses magic in esoteric practices./ the supernatural. |
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Pagan: 1. n. a heathen, esp. one who
worshipped the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. 2. adj. pertaining to or
characteristic of a pagan. |
Pagan: one who holds to the valua of
the earth being sacred./ a heathen./ someone who worships th gods and goddesses. |
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Paganism: n. the state of being pagan./
pagan beliefs and practices |
Paganism: a ritually oriented group or
solitary practice by pagans./ the state of being pagan |
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Pantheon: n. all the gods of a people,
"the Hindu panthion"./ a building where the famous dead of a
nation are buried or memorialized./ a temple dedicated to all the gods.
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Pantheon: a group of gods and goddesses
in a specific culture. |
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Patron: n. a person or institustion
that gives practical (eg financial) support to a cause, individual or group
regarded as deserving it./ a person who lends his name to a deserving institution
or cause as an indication of his approval and support./ a patron saint
of a specified person, place, group, etc. "St. Christopher is the
patron of travellers"./ a customer, esp. a regular one, in a shop,
restaurant etc./ (Church of England) a person who has the right of presentation
to a benefice. |
Patron: a male deity who acts as a persons
Spiritual father. |
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Patroness: n. a femal patron. |
Patroness: a female deity who act as a
persons spiritual mother. |
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Pentagram: n. a pentacle. |
Pentagram: a five pointed star in a circle./
the religious symbol o the Wiccan religion. |
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Priest: n. (Christian churches) an ordained
person trained and authorized by a bishop to be an intermediary between
the people and God by conducting sacred rites, administering the the sacraments,
making intercession, pronouncing absolution and safequarding sacred buildings
and treasures./ any member of the dergy./ a minister of a non-Christian
religion. |
Priest: a man who has been initia ted
into Wicca and who has comple ted many requirements of knowledg and spiritual
advances./ a man wh leads ritual. |
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Priestess: n. a woman priest. |
Priestess: a woman who has been initiated
in Wicca and who has completed many requirements of knowledge and spiritual
advances./ a woman who leads ritual. |
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Psychic: 1. asy. nonphysical, "physic
forces"./ of or pertaining to the mind or spirit. / apparently able
to respond to nonphysical influences, "a psychic medium". 2.
n a person seemingly sesitive to nonphysical influences./ a person able
to act as a medium. |
Psychic: the ability of empathy, telepathy,
the Sight, clarivoyance, etc. innerant in every human being. |
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Pyromancy: not in dictionary |
Pyromancy: divination by scrying into a
fire. |
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Religion: n. man's expression of his acknowledgement
of the divine./ a system of beliefs and practices relating to the sacred
and uniting its adherents in a community, eg. Judaism, Christianity. adherence
to such a system, "a man without religion"./ something which
has a powerful hold on a person's way of thinking, interests, etc. "football
is his religion"./ monastic life, "his name in religion was Damian". |
Religion: a system of beliefs and values
that pertain to the ideology of a sacred divinity./ human beings attempt
to understand the universe. |
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Reincarnation: n. a reincarnating or being
reincarnated pres. part RE-IN-CAR-NAT-ING past and past part RE-IN-CAR-
NAT-ED v.t to cause to be reborn in a new body or a new form adj. born
again in a new form. |
Reincarnation: the proces of being reborn after
death. |
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Ritual: 1. adj. of or relating to or
practiced as a rite or rites 2. n. a strictly ordered traditional method
of conducting and performing an act of worship or other solemn ceremony
/ a book setting out this method/ (loosely) any method of doing something
in which the details are always faithfully repeated "to make a ritual
of welcoming ones guest". |
Ritual: a series of actions with or
within the circle that help to connect one with the god/ goddess/spirits
and to work magic. |
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Sabbat: Witches' sabbat: a midnight
assembly of witches, at wich the powers of evil are supposed to be present,
when black rites are celebrated and orgies held. |
Sabbat: the festivals where witches
celebrate the solar phases of the year / eight important times of the year
when witches gather to celebrate the turning of seasons and the fertility
times in the year. |
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Sabbath: n. the seveth day of the Jewish
week (from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday), set apart by Moses
(Exodus xx,8-9) as a holy day of rest and worship sommemorating the completion
of the creation(Genesis II, 1-3) / Sunday, the first day of the Christian
week, set apart for worship in memory of Christ's resurrection/ a day of
the week set apart regurlarly for worship in any of certain other religions,
eg Friday in the Moslem week. |
Sabbath: the Jewish word that was taken
to pertain to the witches' sabbat. |
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Sacrifice: 1. n. an offering of eg an animal
life, food or incence, made to a deity etc. as propitiation, thanksgiving
etc./ the act or practice of making such an offering. /(theol) Christs
offering of himself in the crusifiction/ the act of depriving oneself of
something for the sake of attaining some goal or for the sake of someone
else, "he made many sacrifices for his son's education"/ the
thing given up in this way/ (baseball) a sacrifice bunt or fly which does
not count as an official time at bat |
Sacrifice: the act of giving up of oneself
in service of the gods/ a libation of food and/or drink/ the killing of
an animal for religious purposes/ as a giving back to the gods. |
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Salamander: n. a mythical creature believed
to live in fire and delight in it/ a member of Caudata, an order of amphibians
superficially like lizzards but with a soft, moist, brightly cobured skin
and no scales/ a hot iron plate for browning the tops of puddings, pastries
etc. |
Salamander: the elemental supernatural being
that lives in the fires and is attributed to be the spirits of the South
and is the representative of the element of fire / a reptile |
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Satanist: satanism; n. worship of Satan,
using rites which travesty Christian rites |
Satanist: a person who worships the Christian
anti-god Satan and who practices black magic. |
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Sciomancy: not in dictionary |
Sciomancy: divination by scrying into water
in a cup or bowl. |
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Scry: not in dictionary |
Scry: the act of looking into/at something
to devine the past, present and future/ a deep meditative state while gazing
at something which allows for images and/or thoughts pertaining to past,
present or future events. |
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Shrine: n. a box of stone, metal or
wood used to to hold sacred relics/ a tomb, chapel or other place held
sacred because of the presence of such relics/ a place which is hallowed
because it has special associations. |
Shrine: a box or table designated to
embody a god, goddess or spirit with the use of imogry |
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Sylph: not in dictionary |
Sylph: the elemental supernatural being
that lives in the air and is attributed to be the spirits of the East and
is the representative of the element air |
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Spell: n. an incantation, words which
properly chanted or uttered are supposed to have magical effect/ the power
to charm or fascinate, "the spell of Ireland"/ a state of enchantment, "putting on the light broke the spell". |
Spell: the poetry, prose, actions etc.
to focus the will in magical workings. |
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Spellcasting: not in dictionary. |
Spellcasting: the act of doing the spell. |
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Spirit: n. the intelligent or immaterial
part of man as distinguised from the body/ the animating or vital principle
in living things/ the moral nature of a man/ a disembodied soul/ a supernatural
being, usually regarded as invisible but as having the power to become
visible at will/ a specified mental or emotional attitude charactenzing
words, acts opinions etc. "she said it in forgiving spirits"/
a person animated by a specified quality "he was one of the braver
spirits"/ the emotional attitude or frame of mind characteristic of
a group of people "team spirit", or of people at a particular
time ,"the spirits of the age"/ the essential character of something,
"He considered the spirit of the law as more important than the letter
of the law"/ cheerful or assertive livelyness "full of Talisman:
n. an object esp. a figure carved or cut at a time regarded as astrologically
favorable, supposed to have magical protective qualities. |
Spirit: a ghost/ a fairy folk/ an elemental/
the energy essence embodied in all life that is usually invisible. |
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Summoner: Not in dictionary |
Summoner: the protector of the high priestess
and the circle/a man of a coven who is chosen to contact other covens/assistant
high priest |
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Talisman: n. an object esp. a figure carved
or cut at a time regarded as astrologically favorable, supposed to have
magical protective qualities. |
Talisman: a man made object that is embodied
with certain magical qualities. |
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Tarot: n. one of a set of playing cards
first used in Italy in the 14thc. the figured cards are used in fortune
telling and as trumps in the game played with the entire set/ the game
played. |
Tarot: a system of 78 cards divided
into major and minor Arcana pictures and symbols which can be used for
devination and meditation |
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Tradition: n. in cultural continuity transmitted
in the form of social attitudes, beliefs, principles and conventions of
behaviour etc. deriving from past experience and helping to shape the present/
a convention established by constant practise/ a belief, legend etc. based
on oral re port, usually exepted as historically true though not verifiable/
the transmitting of cultural continuity, beliefs, legends etc./ a religious
law or teaching, or a body of these, held to have been received originally
by oral transmission. |
Tradition: a subgroup in Wicca who has
a distinct way of working rituals, magic etc. and who follow a way of thinking
that is different from another group ie. Alexandrians, Oddysians, Dianic
etc. |
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Undine: n. a female water sprite who,
according to some legends could acquire a soul if she married a mortal
and had a child. |
Undine: the elemental supernatural being
that lives in the water and is attributed to be the spirits of the West
and is the representative of the element water. |
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Virtue: n. a quality held to be of great
moral value/ moral exellence, goodness/ female chastity/ of a remedy /
power to do good/ (pt) an order of angels. |
Virtue: the quality to uphold ones given
word/ promise/ oath/ to be an upstanding individual. |
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Warlock: n. a man who practices witchcraft
sorcery etc. / traitor, enemy, devil. |
Warlock: a man or a woman witch who has
forsaken his/her oaths in Wicca/witchcraft. |
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White magic: magic used in the service of
good. |
White magic: magic in the bounds of 'An it
harm none do what you will/magic that doesn't try to override a person
will/ magic to produce positive result. |
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Wicca: not in dictionary |
Wicca: (pronounced witch-ah) the pagan
religion that follows a certain and basic form of ritual/ a religion that
believes in a god and goddess and to live in harmony with nature/ the pracrise
of witchcraft. |
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Widdershins: adv. in a counter clockwise
direction, esp. thus regarded as unlucky, "to walk widdershins around
a billiard table". |
Widdershins: the opposite motion of the sun,
West to East, that mimiced in wicca as an anticlockwise direction. |
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Witch: a woman practicing sorcery usually
with the aid, or through the medium, of an evil spirit/ (pop) an ugly old
woman a.v.t. (rhet) to cast a spell on/ to bewitch. |
Witch: a person who is a practioner
of Wicca and who has given oneself up to the service of the lord and the
lady. |
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DICTIONARY |
WICCA |
Bibliography
1) Farrar, Janet and Steward, A Witches' bible complete magikcal child publishing,
inc. NY. 1981
2) Russel, Jeffrey B., A history of witchcraft
3) Starhawk, Spiral Dance
4) Valiente, Doreen, An ABC of witchcraft , Phoenix Publishing inc. 1988
5) Valiente, Doreen, Witchcraft for tomorrow ,Phoenix Publishing inc.
6) The new lexicon Websters Dictionary of the English language, Lexicon publications
inc. NY 1987
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