Meaning of athame | Babel Free

Definitions

A ceremonial pointed knife or dagger, used especially in Wicca and other neopagan traditions and typically having a black handle with magical symbols on it.

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Examples

“She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.”

“Agia was quicker, making a cut at my neck with an athame before his weapon was free of the scabbard.”

“The athame is a black-handled ritual knife—one of the most common distinguishing marks of the Neopagan Witch.”

“Tradition says an athame should never have drawn blood.”

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