A black-handled, double-edged ritual knife used in modern witchcraft.
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And we witches and warlocks must always have our athames with us.
He opened it up and found several different evil looking things; athames, black books, swords, potion ingredients.
Jordan yelled as she ducked to avoid an athame that was thrown at her.
He took the athame and plunged it into her stomach.
Many Wiccans, teens especially, don't have athames, cauldrons, wands… but use substitutes.
You don't need candles, an athame, and a herbal garden to be a Wiccan.
One athame looked much like a switch-blade, with a nice silver blade and a red handle that she grasped tightly in her right hand, bringing it across her chest in a swift movement.
He felt his pocket and felt the athame he had stolen from Martix.
Balthazar waved his hand and an athame appeared in it.
She turned away from the ancient athame that she had been studying to watch the Lord Protector approach.
I have poured over images of athames in catalogs, and peered through the glass at shops, scrutinizing the handle, the shape of the blade, the sheath, only to feel that it just doesn't fit.
She raised her athame once more with a shaking hand.
The tool I most often carry with me to group rituals is a knife, what most people would call an athame.
Check in your state to find out if athames are legal.
She held an athame in her hand, which was what she used to kill the defenseless animal.
Another area where magical activity can fall foul of the law is the carrying of ritual knives and swords, for example the athame.
Whatever the athame was used for is of a magnitude I could not venture to imagine.
Many brought their own chalices, athames and swords so that the altar represented each of us.
From that point on I pretty much put down my wand and athame and refused to do any more spells.
Her silver athame, with Celtic runes in the handle was laid to the right on the altar.