| Altar |
To change, deform, or rearrange. |
| Black Magic |
Magic used by those with much pigmentation in their skin. |
| Centering |
In the case of public rituals, this practice in done to alter the alignment of text on
flyers. |
| Circle |
A term used by techno-Pagans when refering to circle-dot mode, the storage of binary
units using a code of plane figures with a bounding edge equidistant from a fixed point
where some of these figures have dots, and some do not. |
| The Craft |
A movie made in 1996 by Sony Pictures which stars Robin Tunney. |
| Cove |
A small sheltered bay, creek, or inlet of the sea. |
| Coven |
Referring to or being cove-like. |
| Discord |
The appropriate musical notes to be played at dis time in the ritual. |
| Esbat |
Spanish for "it is a flying mammal." |
| Flying |
Something which witches do. Recent surveys show that TWA is the most favored method,
though some traditionalists stick with smaller single-engined airplanes. |
| Glossary |
A place where they add gloss to ceramics. |
| Grounding |
When all young children who have misbehaved during the ritual are sent to their rooms
for the weekend. |
| Hain |
Sam Hain, founder of a successful company which makes underwear. |
| Handfasting |
During protests, this is done to ensure the difficulty of ones removal by use of
handcuffs. |
| Incense |
When capable of reasonable judgement, when acting sensible. |
| Jack-o-lantern |
In the Pagan playing cards, it is the card of the suit of lights (traje de luces)
higher than a ten but lower than a queen. |
| Karma |
An old Star Trek term from the original series which stands for Klingon and Romulan
Military Alliance. |
| Lammas |
Animals of south America of the family Camelidae. |
| Magick |
An art made popular by David Copperfield and Harry Houdini. |
| Nine |
The most Pagans you can fit in a standard phone booth in Iowa City. (Trust me on this
one) |
| Orgy |
The ending often used by technopagans at the end of their URL. |
| Pentagram |
A five sided cracker. |
| Quest |
What deities send you on when they are bored and have nothing better to do. |
| Rowan |
A term used on slave ships when the slaves have rested long enough and need to
continue rowing. |
| Sabbat |
Of or relating to hydrogenated organic compounds. The term comes from the French
chemist Paul Sabatier. |
| Skyclad |
A material similar to nickel-clad, though with ozone instead of nickel. |
| Spell |
A turn at work, a shift. |
| Talisman |
Opposite of Shortisman. |
| Underwear |
See Hain. |
| Virginity |
Sorry, no Pagan I've talked to seems to know what this is. |
| White Witch |
A Caucasian member of the Wiccan religion. |
| Witch |
Pronoun, what one or ones of several things pointed out. Used as a relative in a
subordinate clause representing a noun or noun phrase in the principal sentence. |
| Xerox |
The easiest and quickest way to go from a monotheistic religion to a polytheistic one.
Though it may cost you ten cents. |
| Yorkshire |
A place where they make a type of bread, perfect for rituals, though they call it
pudding. |
| Zygurmist |
The one who devotes his or her life to studying, in order to make rituals more fun. |
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