4031 – White Handled Ritual Knife

Physical description:

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

Museum classification:

Modern Witchcraft

Size:

200 x 20

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.

White handled ritual knife with inscriptions on handle, often used for cutting ritual herbs or inscribing symbols on candles etc.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Metal (steel), mother of pearl (?)

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.

White handled ritual knife with inscriptions on handle, often used for cutting ritual herbs or inscribing symbols on candles etc.

4029 – Scourge

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

4030 – Black Handled Athame

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..

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.