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Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft / Raven Grimassi. 1st ed. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000

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Collection number: NAMOSRL BF1571 .G75 2000 (Non-circulating)

Description

"This indespensable reference work provides both a historical and cultural foundatiion for modern Wicca and Witchcraft, and is the first to be written by a Craft Edler."--Publisher

Dates

  • Publication: 2000

Creator

Extent

1 Books (xvi, 470 pages, 10 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, photographs ; 26 cm

Language

English

Contents

Introduction (p.xi-xvi)

A

Adept (p.1)

Adler, Margot (p.1)

Adytum (p.1-2)

Air (p.2)

Akasha (p.2-3)

Akashic Records (p.3)

Alchemy (p.3-5)

Alder Tree (p.5)

Aleuromancy (p.5)

Alexandrian Tradition (p.6)

Algard (p.7)

Alignment (p.6)

Altar (p.7-8)

Amazons (p.7-8)

Amber K (p.8-9)

American Eclectic (p.9)

Amulet (p.9-10)

Ancestral (p.10)

Angus Og (p.10)

Anima Mundi (p.10-11)

Animals in Witchcraft (p.11-12)

Animism (p.12)

Annwn (p.12)

Anointing (p.12)

Ants (p.12-13)

Anvil (p.13)

Apollo (p.13-14)

Apple (p.14-15)

Aradia (p.15-16)

Arawn (p.16)

Arcana (p.16-17)

Archetype (p.17)

Ardinger, Barbara (p.17-19)

Arianrhod (p.19)

Arician Tradition (p.19-20)

Aridian Tradition (p.20)

Artemis (p.20-21)

Artus Wicca (p.21-22)

As Above, So Below (p.22)

Ash Tree (p.22-23)

Ashes (p.23)

Astral (p.23-24)

Astral Body (p.24)

Astral Light (p.24)

Astral Plane (p.25)

Astral Projection (p.25)

Astral Temple (p.25-26)

Astrology (p.26)

Aswynn, Freya (p.26-27)

Atavistic Resurgence (p.28)

Athame (p.28)

Athena, See Minerva

Aura (p.28-29)

Autumn Equinox (p.29-30)

Axe (p.30)

Axe (Double-Headed) (p.30)

B

Bacchus Baphomet Bat Baubo Bear Bee Befana Belenus Bell Beltane/Roodmas Benandanti Besom Between the Worlds Betwixt & Between Beyond the Veil Birch (Betula pendula/alba) Bird Black Forest Clan (Family Serpent-Stone) Blacksmith Blessed Be Blood Blue Star Wicca Boar Bolline Bone, Gavin Bones Book of Shadows Bound Ether Bow Brigit (Brighit, Brid, Briid, Brigid) Bright Blessings Broom Buckland, Raymond Budapest, Z Bull Burning Times Butterfly By Leaf, And Stem, And Bud C Cabala Caduceus Cakes and Wine Call of Nine Campbell, Kathryn Candle Magick Cardea Carpenter, Dennis Cat Cauldron Cauldron Mysteries Cavallino Cave Cellarius Tradition Celtic Traditional Witchcraft Celts Celtic Year Centaurs Ceremonial Magick Ceres Cerridwen Cernunnos Chakra Chalice Chanting Charge of The Goddess Charging Child of Promise Chthonic Church of The World Tree Cimaruta Circle of The Arts Circle Sanctuary Circlet Clairaudience Clairvoyance Clifton, Chas S. Clutterbuck, Dorothy Cochrane, Robert Color Correspondences Compendium Maleficarum Condensers Cone of Power Connecticut Wiccan & Pagan Network (Cwpn) Consecration Contagion Magick Cooper, D. Jason Cord Magick Cords of Initiation Corn Baby Corn Mother Corn Spirit Cornucopia Coven Covenant of The Goddess (Cog) Cowan Craft Craft Name Crescent Croning Crossroad Crow Crowley, Aleister Crowthers, Arnold Crystal Moon Wicca Cult of The Dead Cult of The Great Goddess Cunningham, Lady Sara Cunningham, Scott Cunning Folk Cyber Wicca Cypress D Daghda Dana Darkness Dedication Degrandis, Francesca Deosil Dew Diana Dianic Wicca Dionysos Divination Divine King Dog Dragon Drawing Down the Moon Drawn Power Druidic Witchcraft Duality E Earth Earthwise East Egg Eight-Fold Path Elder Tree {Sambucus ebultis/Sambucus nigra) Elemental Plane Elementals Elements Elm ( Ulmus Campestris) Elsbeth, Marguerite Elves Ember Days Esbat Ether Etruscans Evil Eye Evocation F Fairy Ring Fairies Fairy Tradition Familiar Spirit Farrar, Janet And Stewart Fates Fava Feminine Energy Fermentation Mysteries Fennel (Foeniculum Vulgare) Fetch Fire First Celtic Wiccan Church Fish Fitch, Ed. Fith-Faith Five-Fold Kiss Flidais Flogging Fool Four Elements Four Quarters Four Tools Four Winds Four Worlds Fox, Selena Franklin, Anna Frazer, Sir James Frey Freya Friedburg, Ainsley Frog Frost, Yvonne And Gavin Full Moon Meetings G Gardner, Gerald Brosseau Gargoyles Garland Garter Georgian Tradition Gifts of Aradia Goat Goblins God and Goddess God Posture Goddess Posture Goetic Magick Golden Bough Gospel of The Witches Grail Grail Mysteries Grain Grandmother Story Great Mother Great Rite Green Man Green Witchcraft Grigori Grimassi, Raven Grimoire Group Mind Guardian Guazzo, Francesco Maria H Hag Stone Hammer Hammer Gods Handfasting Handmaiden Hare Harvest Lord Hawk Hawthorn Tree (Crataegus Monogyna) Hazel Tree (Coryllus Avelland) Heartland Spiritual Alliance Hearth Hecate Hedge Witch Hieros Gamos Herbs Herbal Code Herding Cats Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes, The Thrice-Great) Hermetic Herms Herne Hex High Priest High Priestess Holed Stones Holly King Holly Tree {Ilex Aquifolium) Holy Strega Honey Hooded One Horae Horned God Horned One Horns Horse Hydromancy I Imbolc/Imbolg Incense Indo-European Informing Inquisition Initiation Invocation Irish Faery-Faith Tradition Iron Iron Oak (Church Of) Italian Witchcraft Italic Paganism Ivy J Jack-In-The-Green Jackson, Nigel A. Jana Janus Jayanti, Amber John Barleycorn Jones, Evan John K Kabalah (Also Cabala, Kaballah, Kabbalah, Qabalah, Quabala) Karma Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis) King of The Woods Knot Kraig, Donald Michael Kurgans L Labyrinth Lady Ladywood Tradition Lady of The Lake Lake Nemi Lame God Lare Leek, Sybil Legend of The Descent Leland, Charles Godfrey Ley Lines Libation Ligature Light Light and Darkness Lodestone Lord of Misrule Lords of Karma Lucifer Lugh Lughnasadh/Lammas Lupercus M Mabon Mabon Festival Macrocosm Maddalena Magick Magick Circle Magick Mirror Magick Square Magick Supplies Maia Maiden, Mother, Crone Malbrough, Ray T. Malleus Maleficarum Mandrake Mann, Nicholas R. Mansions Of The Moon Masculine Energy Masks Matarazzo, Lady Brenda Matriarcrial Matrifocal May Day Maypole Mccoy, Edain Menhir Men's Mysteries Menstrual Blood Microcosm Minerva Mistletoe (Vbam A/Hum) Monaghan, Patricia Moon Magick Moon Goddess Moon Phases Moon Tree Morrigan Mortar and Pestle Morwyn, Lady Mother Rest Sacred Grove Moura, Ann (Aoumiel) Mouse MURRAY, MARGARET Muses Myrtle (Myrtus communis) Mystery Teachings Mystery Tradition N New Wiccan Church International Nightmare, M. Macha North Numerology O Oak, Ash, And Thorn Oak King Oakmist Occult Odic Force Odic Mantle Odic Principles Odin Offerings O'gaea, Ashleen Ogham O'hara, Gwydion Oils Old Europe Old One Old Ones Old Religion Old Ways Olive Tree (Olea europaea) Ostara Owl Ozark Avalon (Oa) P Pagan Standard Time Palmistry Pan Paterson, Margaret Pendderwen, Gwydion Pentacle Pentagram Perfect Love and Perfect Trust Philtre Pig Pins Planes of Existence Poppets Pomegranate Proserpina Punch Punchinello R Raised Power Rategno, Bernardo Raven Ravenwolf, Silver Reclaiming Tradition Red Witch Tradition Rede Reincarnation Renfle, Janina Rex Nemorensis Rhiannon Rites Of Passage Ritual Roderick, Timothy Rooster Rowan (Sorbus aucuparid) Rue (Ruta graveolens) S Sabbat Saging Salamander Salt Samhain Sanders, Alex Satan Saturnalia Satyr Scottish Witchcraft (PectiWita) Scrying Seasonal Tides Seax-Wicca Self-Initiation Serith, Ceisiwr Serpent Sex Magick Shaman Sheba, Lady Sigil Silver Branch/Bough Silver Circle, Centre For the Old Religion Simms, Maria Kay Sinistrarj Skull Skyclad Slain God Slater, Herman Slavic Paganism So Mote It Be South Spare, Austin Spell Spindle/Spinning Spiral Spiral Dance Spring Equinox Staff Stag Stang Starhawk Starkindler Tradition Stones In Witchcraft Stregheria Summer Solstice Summerland Summoner Sword Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) Sylph Sylvan Tradition Sympathetic Magick Synchronicity T Talisman Tarot Tattvic Tides Telesco, Trish Thor Thought Form Thought Projection Three Degrees of Initiation Three Great Mysteries Three-Fold Law Three Worlds Threshold Thurible Thyrsus To Know, To Will, To Dare, And To Be Silent Toad Traditional Laws of Witchcraft Transvection Tree Worship Triangle of Manifestation Triformis Tuatha De Danaan/Danann (thoo'a-haw day dah'-nawn) U Uncrossing Underworld V Valiente, Doreen Vaporous Magick Voodoo Doll Voice of The Wind W Walnut (Juglans regid) Wand Waning Warding Warlock Watchers Watchtowers Water Waxing Web (The) Well-Worn Path Wells Welsh Traditional Witchcraft Wtschcke, Carl L. West Wheel of The Year Wiccan Mythos and Winter Solstice. Whitcomb, Bill Wicca Wicca (Etymology) Wiccan Mythos Wiccan Rede Wiccan Rede (Magazine) Widdershins Willow {Salix alba) Winter Solstice Witch (European Roots) Witch Ball Witch Bottle Witch Marks Witchcraft (European Roots) Witches' Alphabet Witches' Ladder Witches' Pyramid Witches' Voice, Inc. Witta Wolf Women's Mysteries Wood, Robin World Tree Wraith Y Year And A Day Yule Z Zell-Ravenheart, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon





Pictures, Figures, and Illustrations A Symbol for the element of Air Medieval alchemists attempting to change the chemical properties of a substance Alder An altar in a beautiful outdoor setting Amazon Warrior Amber K A magical amulet Angus Og Australian aborigines This ancient cave drawing Tools of the magical blacksmith, the anvil Apollo Apples Arawn A Magician card Barbara Ardinger Arianrhod Artemis An Ash tree received through Odin the gift of divination Witches traveled to distant places by astral projection Early astrologers disagree on whether the practice of astrology began in Mesopotamia or in Egypt Freya Aswynn Athame The aura is comprised of seven layers of energy B Double bladed axe Bacchus Baphomet A bat Baubo Bees Befana Belenus Beltane, Celtic Fire festival Birch Tree Stem A Crane (bird) A Blacksmith A boar A Bolline A Book of Shadows Brigit A Broom Raymond Buckland A bull A Butterfly C A Caduceus Cakes and wine Kathryn Campbell Candle magick A cat on a roof A cauldron Faunus Typical celtic design A Centaur Ceres Cerridwen Cernunnos The Chakra system One of the four elemental tools, the chalice The Cimaruta Chas S. Clifton Robert Cochrane Knots in a cord A cornucopia An altar tower at the crossing of three roads Aleister Crowley An ancient burial mound of cave dwellers in Sweden Scott Cunningham Cypress The Daghda Dana Diana Dionysus A mirror and a crystal ball A dog A dragon E Symbol for the element of Earth The Egg of Ophism The Symbol of the Eight-Fold path Elder Gnomes Sylphs Salamanders Undines Elm Marguerite Elsbeth An elf sitting on a stack of books Mano cornuto and mano fico A fairy ring Fairies gather to dance in a ring under the moon A sculptor’s rendition of a Witch’s familiar Janet and Stewart Farrar The three Fates, known in Germanic lore as the Norns Fennel Symbols for the element of fire A fish A small wax of clay figure, called a fish-faith The pattern of the five-fold kiss and the three-fold kiss A fool The Four Winds Anna Franklin Freya Ainsley A frog The full moon flanked by the quarter moons G Gerald Gardner A gargoyle Garland A male goat The lord and lady of the Sabbat The god posture The goddess posture The goetic demon Belial being summoned by a magician Frontispiece from the first edition of The Golden Bough A grail tarot card Grain The Green Man A carving dating from the Renaissance depicting a faun and a satyr Raven Grimassi H A holed or hag stone A hammer pendant Thor A couple’s hands tied together A hare The Harvest lord Ra Hawthorn A hazel tree branch Hecate Herne the Hunter Hex Symbols Santa Claus, his head wreathed with holly Holly tree branch Beehive The horned one card A horse I Ivy J Jack-In-The-Green Janus Amber Jayanti K King of the Woods card The sheepshank knot Donald Michael Kraig L A Labyrinth A statue of Lare A roman citizen offers a sacrifice at a Lare shrine in his home Sybil Leek Charles Godfrey Leland Two Views of the Land of Misrule Lucifer Lugh M Mabon Maddalena Maia Ray Malbrough A Mandrake Nicholas Mann Sixteenth-century North American mask Lady Brenda Matarazzo Maypole at May Day festival Edain McCoy A prehistoric menhir Minerva Mistletoe Patricia Monaghan The Moon Goddess Four phases of the Moon An Assyrian moon tree Morrigan The Nine Muses A Myrtle tree N Numbers and Corresponding Letter O The Oak King Oak tree stem Odin Ashleen O’Gaea Ogham Alphabet Gwydion O’Hara Olive branch Ostara eggs An owl P Line in a palm Pan A pentacle A Pentagram A Pig Pins in a lemon A pomegranate A poppet Proserpina Punchinello R A raven Silver RavenWolf Rhiannon Timothy Roderick A rooster A rowan tree branch Rue S A tree in a graveyard The Lord of Misrule A satyr A person sowing/harvesting crop The serpent of Magick New Dorset Ooser mask Lady Sheba Sigil for “Opening the Portal” Maria Kay Simms A skull A skyclad witches The Hanged Man tarot card Baba Jaga The sphere of energy Spinning An Equinox Egg A stag A stang Kisma Stepanich Carving of a Strega on an Etruscan mirror back The summer sun Summerland A sword A sycamore branch T The tower tarot card Trish Telesco A thurible A Roman Bacchanalian reclining on a couch Oak tree Triangle hand gesture W A walnut tree A wand Warlock Symbol for the element water Carl Llewelyn Weschcke The Wiccan Wheel of the Year Bill Whitcomb Willow branch Evergreen pine tree Witches riding broom through the night sky Stereotypical depiction of a witch A Witch’s ball Witches’ Alphabet Witches' ladder children drinking milk form a wolf Z Moring Glory Zell-Ravenheart Oberon Zell-Ravenheart





Classic Verses The Charge of the Goddess / Stewart Farrar The Myth of the Descent of the Goddess / Raven Grimassi Drawing Down the Moon / Lady Sheba Great Rite Invocation / Stewart and Janet Farrar Invocation of the Horned God / Lady Sheba Wiccan Rede The Witches’ Chant / Lady Sheba The Witches’ Creed / Doreen Valiente





Crafts/Publications Accord Abrasax Acorns ADF Journal Aerious Journal Al-Mali Review Amulet Newsletter Asatru Today At the Crossroads Azrael Project Newsletter Baba Yaga News Baelder The Bard The Belfrey The Baltane Papers Berkana Beyond Bifrost Circle Network News The Cauldron Celtic Camper Changing Men Children of the Moon Coming Out Pagan The Coven Chronicle Covenant of the Goddess Newsletter Covenstead Craft/Crafts Crescent Magazine The Crescent Crossroads Collective Celtic Crossroads Learning Center Crows’ Cause The Crystal Moon Digest CUUPS Newsletter Daughters of Inanna Daughters of Nyx Dragon Whispers Dream Network DreamWeaver The Druid’s Progress Dunraven House Earth Circle News EarthKeeper Magazine EarthSongs EarthSpirit Newletter Earth Spirit Speaks Earth Tribe Eklektikos Emerging Self Enchante Enchanting News Evergreen News Festive Circles Update Four Winds Free Spirit Rising From the Hearth Heartsong Music Review Hephaesotos’ Forge Hermit’s Lantern Hole in the Stone Horns and Crescent/CoG How About Magic Idunna In Spirit Intuitive Explorations Ishpiming Magazine The Iron Oak Voice Keltria Lady Letter The Lady Letter The Labyrinth of New England Leaves Living a Magickal Life LunaSol Magical Forest Forum Mecca Journal Midwest Pagan Correspondence Minemosyne’s Scroll Moonbeams Scroll MoonWeb Moon Shadows Morning Star News MotherSpirit Mystagogue Magazine Mystic Aegis NewAeon Newsletter New Moon NewYork New Moon Rising New Worlds of Mind and Spirit NightScapes Notes from Taychopera Obsidian Of a Like Mind (Feminist) Of Writers & Witches Omega New Age Directory Open Circle Open Ways Out of the Broom Closet Pagan Dawn Pagan Ink PagaNet News Pagani Worldwide Panthology PAnGaia Pan’s Grove Panegyria Phases The Pomegrante PPRN Pagan Digest Pagan Press Pagan Tides Pagans for Peace Pagasanu Pan Pipes Pantheos Pan’s Grove Prediction Raven’s Call Razing the Stakes Reclaiming Quarterly Red Garters Rosegate Journal/WARD Rune The Runestone Sagewoman Silver Wheel Sacred Grove Sacred Hart Sacred Path The Seeker Serpent’s Tail Shadowplay The Shaman Papers Silver Chalice The Silver Pentagram Solitary Spirit Earth/COWA Spirited Women Staves Subconscious Soup Sword of Dyrnwyn Symphony: Magick Think! Magazine Talking Stick Thou Art The Threshold Thunderbow II Total Eclipse Triple Flame Trollwise Press The Unicorn & The Littlest Unicorn The Witches Trine The Wanderers’ Network Water The Web WebNotes White Dragon The Wiccan Rede Wild & Weedy Wita on the Web Witch’s Brew The Witches’ Almanac Witches and Witchlings Wyrd Yggdrassil





Organizations Aisling Association of Celtic Tribes Alachua Pagan Alliance Alliance of Solitary Practitioners Bay Area Pagan Assembly Betwixt & Between Church of the World Tree/Terraspace Circle Sanctuary Connecticut Wiccan and Pagan Network Covenant of the Goddess Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Craftwise CWPN, c/o Avalon Great Lakes Pagan Council Heartland Spiritual Alliance Midwest Pagan Council New Wiccan Church (NWC) Oakmist Grove Our Lady of the Woods Ozark Avalon Pagan Educational Network Pittsburgh Pagan Alliance Santa Cruz School for Tarot and Qabalah Study Silver Circle, Centre for the Old Religion The 3rd Road Tucson Area Wiccan Network The Witches’ Anti-Defamation League (WADL) The Witches’ League for Public Awareness (WLPA) The Witches’ Voice Universal Federation of Pagans WebCentral WebSouth WebWest Wiccan/Pagan Press Alliance (WPPA) World Pagan Network





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