4030 – Black Handled Athame

Physical description:

An athame with a steel blade and a black wooden handle with faint Wiccan inscriptions carved into its surface, and with a brass(?) guard with the ends bent into a tight curve..

Museum classification:

Modern Witchcraft

Size:

265 x 100

Information:

Part of the collection donated by Tanith Burcombe, left to her by her late mother Celia Penney, magical name Francesca, High Priestess of a Wiccan Coven.

Athames can be used for circle casting and directing energy.

This athame belonged to Gerald Gardner and was given by him to Francesca.

The eight-spoked symbol, which occurs on many magical objects, symbolises the eight paths to the centre.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Wood, metal (steel, brass?)

Copyright ownership:

MWM

Part of the collection donated by Tanith Burcombe, left to her by her late mother Celia Penney, magical name Francesca, High Priestess of a Wiccan Coven.

Athames can be used for circle casting and directing energy.

This athame belonged to Gerald Gardner and was given by him to Francesca.

The eight-spoked symbol, which occurs on many magical objects, symbolises the eight paths to the centre.

4029 – Scourge

A scourge with a slim, elegant bone handle decorated with pin dots, and leather whipcord.

4031 – White Handled Ritual Knife

A ritual knife with a steel blade and a handle of mother of pearl (or some very similar material) with magical inscriptions.

3650 – Copper disk with engravings from the Order of Artemis

A copper disc, known in Modern Witchcraft as a pentacle, engraved with symbols representing the Horned God, the Goddess of the Moon, the elements, and ritual tools associated with initiation. These pentacles also represent Earth on a Modern Witchcraft altar.