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Part A: Wicca, Witchcraft, & Paganism
1. What is Witchcraft? What does the term Witchcraft mean to you?
2. What is Wicca? What does the term Wicca mean to you?
3. Are Wicca and Witchcraft the same thing?
4. Can a person be a Witch and a member of another religion? In other words, a Jewish Witch, a Christian Witch. What problems/issues might they face?
5. What is Paganism?
6. What is the difference between Paganism, Witchcraft and Wicca?
7. What is an Eclectic Witch?
8. What is a Traditional Witch?
9. What is a Orthodox Witch?
10. Who was Gerald Gardner? What were his contributions to the Craft?
11. Who is Alex Sanders? What are his contributions to the Craft?
12. Who is Doreen Valiente? What are he contributions to the Craft?
13. What is the difference between witchcraft today and witchcraft in the past?
14. What is the Wiccan philosophy?
15. Who are the deities that Wiccans worship? List and describe them.
16. What is the Wiccan Rede?
17. What have your learned about Paganism?
18. What are the 3 most known traditions of modern Wicca and Witchcraft?
19. What is the difference between Traditional Witchcraft and Eclectic Witchcraft?
20. What are the 3 styles of Witchcraft?
Vocabulary
Define these words
1. Adept
2. Dedicant
3. Initiation
4. Hereditary Witch
5. Coven
6. Covenhome
7. Covenstead
8. Hive
9. Eke Name
10. Gardnerian Tradition
11. Alexandrian Tradition
12. Witch Queen/King
13. Pantheistic
14. Androgyne
15. Old Religion
Part B: The Magick Circle & Sacred Space
1. What is Sacred Space?
2. What is the Magick Circle?
3. What are the Quarters?
4. What does “Casting the Circle” mean?
5. What does “Releasing the Circle” mean?
6. What is “Deosil”?
7. What is “Widdershins”?
8. Air=East. What color represents Air? What words and images
does it invoke? What astrological signs are ruled by Air? What personality traits is Air associated with?
9. Fire=South. What color represents Fire? What words and images does it invoke? What astrological signs are ruled by Fire? What personality traits is Fire associated with?
10. Water=West. What color represents Water? What words and images does it invoke? What astrological signs are ruled by Water? What personality traits is Water associated with?
11. Earth=North. What color represents Earth? What words and images does it invoke? What astrological signs are ruled by Earth? What personality traits is Earth associated with?
12. Spirit=Center. What color represents Spirit? What words and images does it invoke?
13. Who is the God? What does he represent?
14. Who is the Goddess? What does she represent?
15. What are the three faces of the Triple Goddess, and which phase of the Moon does each represent?
16. What are the three faces of the Triple God?
17. What is “raising Energy”?
18. Where does Magickal energy come from?
19. What are the chakras of the human body? List and describe their position on the human body.
20. What are the traditional power raising techniques?
21. What are the two most popular methods for drawing in outside energy?
22. List 5 common magickal goals energy is used for.
23. Can you use music and dancing in raising energy? Explain what and if the effect.
24. Explain how you send magickal energy?
25. What is the significance of having a Craft name?
26. What is the Charge of the Goddess and the Charge of the Horned God?
27. What are the Rites of Passage? List and describe them.
28. What are some of the other planes of existence we use magick in?
29. What do you draw, with your wand, athame or forefinger on your
power hand, over the altar while you are casting the circle?
30. How do you ground and center?
31. What do you do prior to casting the magick circle?
32. What is Cakes & Ale/Wine?
33. What is the Fivefold Blessing?
34. What is the Sevenfold Blessing?
35. What is the traditional chant used to attune everyone in circle?
36. What is the besting time to perform a ritual, traditionally?
37. What isn’t the best time to perform a ritual, traditionally?
Vocabulary
Define these words
1. Smudging
2. Benediction
3. Drawing Down the Moon
4. Drawing Down the Sun
5. Fume
6. Libation
7. Meditation
8. Working between the Worlds
9. Otherworld
10. Astral Plane
11. Cosmic Lemniscate
12. Cleansing
13. Dressing
14. Etheric Plane
15. Pentagram
16. Craft Name
17. Working Name
18. Coven Name
Part C: Ritual Tools
Vocabulary
Define these words
1. Asperger
2. Athame
3. Bell
4. Bolline
5. Besom
6. Book of Shadows
7. Candles
8. Cauldron
9. Chalice
10. Cord
11. Drum
12. Herbs
13. Incense
14. Lamps of Art
15. Mortar & Pestle
16. Natural Objects
17. Oils
18. Pen of Art
19. Pentacle
20. Scourge
21. Staff
22. Stang
23. Stones
24. Sword
25. Thurible
26. Wand
27. Witch Jewels
28. Generator
29. Grimoire
Write the names of the ritual tools and were they are positioned on the altar
Here are the colors/types of the ritual robes we wear within the magickal circle. Please give the purpose for each color.
1. Oranges and Reds
2. White and Muslin
3. Black
4. Greens
5. Grey/Pale Lavender
6. Purples
7. Blues
8. Yellows
Part D: Divination
Vocabulary
Define these words
1. Casting Stones
2. I Ching
3. Magick Mirror
4. Pendulum
5. Runes
6. Show Stone
7. Tarot
8. Ogham
9. Scry
10. Palmistry
11. Symbolism
12. Galster
Questions
1. What are some forms of divination?
2. What are tarot cards?
3. What is the Major Arcana?
4. Name four cards of the Major Arcana.
5. What is the Minor Arcana?
6. What are the suits of the Minor Arcana?
7. What are runes?
8. Name 5 runes.
9. What is a magic mirror?
10. How is it used in divination?
Part E: Spells & Magick
1. What are some of the components that we use in spell crafting?
2. What are the types of spells that can be cast?
3. What are some of the paths of magick?
4. What path do you follow? What path(s) are you interested in? Why?
5. What are the three major types of magick?
6. What are the differences between left-hand path and right-hand path magick?
7. What is threefold law or the Law of Return?
8. What is tenfold law?
9. What is the difference between the laws?
10. What are the three levels of self?
11. What is the four levels of the Witches Pyramid? List and describe each one.
12. What are the types of spells can you do at the different phases of the Moon?
Waxing:
Full:
Waning:
New (Dark):
13. Name some of the tools used to aid in spell work.
14. What is the Witches’ Sigil Wheel?
15. What are the color correspondences?
16. What are the daily influences?
17. What are the elemental influences?
18. What are the astrological signs?
19. What are animal totems?
20. Give an example of a planetary seal.
21. Give an example of a planetary square.
Vocabulary
Define these words
1. Sympathetic
2. Correspondences
3. Comparative
4. Directive
5. Transference
6. Containment
7. Deflection
8. Reflection
9. Banishing
10. Drawing
11. Ceremonial
12. Contagion
13. Homeopathic
14. Protection
15. Retribution
16. Talisman
17. Amulet
18. Seals
19. Moon Phases
20. Charms
21. Poppet
Part F: The Sabbats and Esbats
1. What is the Wheel of the Year ?
2. What are the greater sabbats?
3. What are the lesser sabbats?
4. The Four Common Mythological Cycles of the Wheel of the Year are:
The Oak King and the Holly King
The Summer Queen and the Winter King
The Sun God’s Life Cycle
The Goddess’s Life Cycle
Describe each cycle from beginning to end.
Sabbats
Samhain
1. When is Samhain traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Samhain?
3. What are the colors associated with Samhain?
Yule
1. When is Yule traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Yule?
3. What are the colors associated with Yule?
Imbolc
1. When is Imbolc traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Imbolc?
3. What are the colors associated with Imbolc?
Ostara
1. When is Ostara traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Ostara?
3. What are the colors associated with Ostara?
Beltane
1. When is Beltane traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Beltane?
3. What are the colors associated with Beltane?
Litha
1. When is Litha traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Litha?
3. What are the colors associated with Litha?
Lughnasadh
1. When is Lughnasadh traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Lughnasadh?
3. What are the colors associated with Lughnasadh?
Mabon
1. When is Mabon traditionally held?
2. What is the common name for Mabon?
3. What are the colors associated with Mabon?
4. What have you learned about the Sabbats?
Esbats
1. What are the names of the 13 moons of the year?
2. What Esbats are associated with the Sabbats?
3. What are the two most common phases of the moon that are considered Esbats?
4. What have you learned about the Esbats?
Part G: Vocabulary
Define these words
Altar
Animism
Aspects of Deity
Attunement
Aura
Blessed Be
Book of Shadows
Burning Times
Centering
Chakra(s)
Charge of the Goddess
Circle
Cone of Power
Correspondences
Coven
Cowen
Degrees
Earthing
Grounding
Elder
Elements
Esbats
Evocation
Invocation
Familiar
God, god
Goddess, goddess
Healing
High Priest
High Priestess
Immanence
Initiate
Law of Return/Threefold Law
Lunar Cycle
Magick
Pagan/Heathen
Pantheism/Divination
Pentagram
Perfect Love and Perfect Trust
Polarity
Polytheism
Priest
Priestess
Quarters
Reincarnation
Ritual
Ritual Tools
Sabbats
Skyclad
Spell
Summerland
Three Levels of Self
Traditions
Wheel of the Year
Wiccan Rede
Witch
Wicce
Wicca
Witches’ Pyramid
Part H: Essay Questions
In your own words please describe what it mean to you to be a witch.
In your own words describe what your goals are within witchcraft.
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Lady Chakkraa Morningstar
High Priestess, Coven of the Shadows of Midnight
Elder, Elder Kindred of the Nordic Shadows
Elder, Brotherhood of the Wolf
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