| Book of Shadows |
| DIVINATION The art of using tools or other phenomena to predict the future. Divination can be seen in using tarot cards, runes, bones, crystal scrying, and other methods. |
| DOWSING The ability to locate water or other precious resources by using a forked twig and following the lead of its pull. hazel was often employed for this purpose. Dowsers today are often referred to as :water witches" |
| ECO-MAGICK A movement that bases its principles on ecological and environmental issues. Walkers of this path often heal the earth with their own powers or work on healing society as a whole and erasing negativity. |
| DRACONIC Refers to dragons and their magicks. |
| DRUID A path of nature based spirituality that originated from the pre-Christian Celts. Druids beleive in the power of prose especially poetry, healing, and many other arts. Personal developments and a sanctity of the earth are views as sacred in this tradititon. Please go here to learn more about Druidry. |
| EARTH MYSTERIES The collection of paths that base themselves on a spiritual leel with the earth and its life. Walkers of this path are often drawn by woddland spirits, the Ancient's sites of worship, ley lines, etc. |
| ENCHANTMENT (a) The ability of a witch to create an infatuation with a victim. (b) An item or artefact imbuedwith a specific energy force (i.e. a wand enchanted with the element of fire) |
| ENOCHIAN MAGICK Created by the Elizabethean astologer John Dee in the sixteenth century. Enochian magicks features magick sigils, ritual magick, and weather control. Enochian magick aloows the caster to raise their spiritual selves to the higher realms of beings by unlocking those doors and succeeding in passing the angels that guard those doors. |
| ESBAT A celebration in honor of the Goddess each full moon, her time of fulfillment and growth. There are usually thirteen esbats in a lunar year. |
| FAMILIAR An animal that aids a Pagan in their magickal working. Familiars come in all shapes and sizes, most possessing an uncanny intelligence. Animal familars understand a magick worker's life and emotional states and serves as both compansion and ally in those capacities. |
| GARDNERIAN TRADITION Founded by Gerald Gardner, this tradition employs a much more unritualized approcah to Wicca. Gardnerian and Alexandrian traditions are so intermingled today that they have become as one, despite bad blood in the past. |
| FERAFERIA Founded by Frederick Adams, a spiritual movement that bases its theroies on the mysteries of the wilderness and nature and stems from the beleif that man's beginning were of that of a mythical utopia. |
| FITH-FATH A doll that is used in sympathetic magicks, oftne used for long-distance healing. It is usually made from clay, wax, or cloth and is seen used widely in African magicks such as Voodon. |
| FIVE-FOLD KISS In Wicca, the kiss of love from the ritual's initiator placed upon a covenmate's body in the sequence of: feet, knees, genitals, breasts, and lips. The feet carry a person on the sacred paths. The knees kneel before the altar. The genitals create life. The breasts nuture life. And the lips speak the sacred languages and words. |
| FLAGELLATION The use of a ritual item to scourge an initate to demonstate discipline and purification. Often used in the first and second stages of initiation in Wicca, this practice is also seen in other forms of Paganism, Christianity, and Hinduism. |
| FUTHARK The sequence of runes, from the values of the initial six runes, phonetic worth.. |
| GARDNER, GERALD The founder of the Gardnerain tradition, he was born in 1884. During his life he studied Tribal religons, Rosicrucianism, Wicca, Druidry, and co-masonic ideals. He died in 1964 while sailing in the Mediterranean. |
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