Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft / Raven Grimassi. 1st ed. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000
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
- Grimassi, Raven, 1951-2019 (Author, Person)
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
Shops & Mail order Merchants
A Sacred Space
Abyss Distributiaon
Avalon
Bell, Book & Candle
Controversial Bookstore
Crescent Moon
Dunraven House
JBL Statues
Le Sorciere
Mansions of the Moon
Mystical Minds Bookstore
Nemeton
Raven’s Flight
Raven’s Loft
Starcrafts
13 Moons
13 Real Magick
The Sacred Grove
White Light Pentacles/Sacred Spirit Products
Wishful Witch
Advertisements
Hereditary Witchcraft: Secrets of the Old Religion
Italian Witchcraft: The Old Religion of Southern Europe
Wiccan Magick: Inner Teachings of the Craft
The Wiccan Mysteries: Ancient Origins & Teachings
Halloween: Customs, Recipes, & Spells
Yule: A Celebration of Light and Warmth
Witches’ Night Out
Inside a Witches’ Coven
Green Witchcraft: Folk Magic, Fairy Lore & Herb Craft
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