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| Wand |
 A magical weapon is any instrument used to bring about
intentional change. In practice, magical weapons are usually specific, consecrated items used within ceremonial ritual. There is no
hard and fast rule for what constitutes or does not constitute a magical weapon. If a magician considers it to be a weapon, then a weapon
it is. However, there does exist a set of magical weapons with particular uses and symbolic meanings. Some such common
weapons/tools include the dagger/sword, wand/baton, cup/chalice, pentacle/disk, holy oil, lamp and bell. See
Magical Weapons. Symbolically, the Wand represents the element of fire, and
sometimes, air (the suit of wands in a Tarot deck reflects this meaning, as wands (clubs) symbolise spiritual force). |
| Wanga |
See Obeah. |
| Watchtowers |
This term came from the
Enochian branch of
Ceremonial Magick, but has now been incorporated into many Traditions of
Wicca. The watchtowers are the four elemental directions of north, south, east
and west or the quarters (corresponding with the appropriate points on the compass) called to protect the
Circle
during its establishment. Each has a correspondence with the compass point, an
element, and (varying between different traditions) a colour associated with it. |
| Water |
 Water is one of the four classical elements in
Alchemy. It is considered to be both cold and wet, and according to Plato is
associated with the icosahedron, a twenty-sided polyhedron where all sides are equidimensional. |
| Widdershins |
An anti-clockwise movement used in magical workingsd or banishing rituals. |
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