There are 3 basic ways to welcome a new spiritual object into your life.
1. Make the object
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It's part of the ABCs of modern witchcraft: Athame-Boline-Cup.
Boline (also bolline, bolleen): a nice, mysterious, witchy word. Where I come from, it rhymes with "so mean," but maybe in your valley they say it differently.
White-hilted, to the athame's black. For practical, instead of ritual work. That's how I learned it. Different valleys, different ways.
In a sense, it's a case of mistaken identity.
I’m new to Wicca, and everyone says I should get a special knife called an “athuhmee” or something like that. Do I have to have one to be a Wiccan? Knives are kind of intimidating.
An athame is a knife used in Wiccan ritual. The name is usually pronounced “A-thuh-may” or “a-THAW-me,” but there’s ongoing squabbling about the “correct” way to say it, so bringing it up at a Wiccan dinner party is a great way to start a lively argument if the conversation has gone stale. Traditionally the athame has a double-edged blade and a black handle—more like a dagger than a hunting or utility knife. However, modern athames are made of a wide variety of materials, and some have only a single-edge blade.
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