How Do You Extinguish a Sacred Fire?

The gathering of the Tribe is over.

The sacred Fire of Gathering, which was lighted when the Tribe first gathered, must now be extinguished.

But how do you extinguish a sacred Fire?

Well, here's how the Tribe of Witches does it.

On the final morning of our Grand Sabbat witch-moot, we gather around the Fire, and make the same offerings and prayers to It that we've made on every morning of our gathering.

Then we quench the Fire with offerings. At the Grand Sabbat, for reasons that I won't go into here, we use red wine to do this.

You could use other things, as well: beer, cider, milk, or water from a sacred spring. (Obviously, liquor won't work.) The general principle to remember is that whatever you use should be an item of valor.

This because you don't merely extinguish a sacred Fire.

You quench It.