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WAND:

1. a magickal tool, traditionally made of wood, 21 in length or length from elbow to users fingertips; and tapered base to tip. Can be plain, painted, stained and/or engraved. It’s an instrument for invocation and represents the Element Air.
2. 2) rod or staff which is prepared so that it may be used for magickal or psychic purposes; usually to project some form of power. Traditional ceremonial Magick ascribes to it the power of control over the magickal element of fire.

WARLOCK:

1. Oath Breaker and Traitor, from Scottish Gaelic dialect. Also refers to the binding of the candidate in preparation for initiation. Wiccans do NOT use this word for a ‘male witch’! Its meaning is from the Old English (one source: Scottish) word: waerloga.
2. 2) A word for an untrustworthy man, an oathbreaker, sometimes an eunuch (castrated male). It’s thought to have come into usage by Witches to describe one who had betrayed them.

WATCHER:

an elemental guardian,
an Old One.

WATCHTOWERS, GUARDIANS OF:
A term used to describe the Elementals who are Energy Forms, Wraiths or Spirits of the 4 Elements. 2) Originally used in the Enochian Tradition of Ceremonial Magick but whose usage is now widespread. 3) Those Entities connected to the Elements Directions certain attributes as follows:  

They are both visible physical and invisible spiritual. They are invoked during ritual as protectors of our Circle of Power sometimes as advisors. Some ‘set’ these Guardians, during rituals in a more complex exercise than simply invoking the Elements.

WELSH TRADITION:

1. 1.) Y Tylwyth Teg, the American branch of Dynion Mwyn, brought to the U.S. by Rhuddlwm Gawr in 1966. Derived from the Tribe of Dynion Mwyn in North Wales. What distinguishes the Tradition of Y Tylwyth Teg from other traditions of Witchcraft or Wicca in general, is the emphasis on a historical linage (alleged to have been passed down from Prince Llewellyn) since 1282; a focus on religious equality (either High Priest or High Priestess may initiate or lead a coven (or grove); and the passing down of handwritten copies of books of power, which include: The Owl (a Book of Shadows), and thirteen books containing magickal philosophy, myths, legends, history, and rituals. These books were named after the Original Mythological Thirteen Treasures of Ancient Britain. The tradition includes a body of lore and ritual associated with the Welsh Mabinogion and Welsh Triads.
2. The New York Welsh Tradition. This tradition was originally founded by Ed Buczynski with the help of Herman Slater. It is derived from The Celtic Tradition as taught by the late Gwen Thompson.
3. 3.) A Tradition of Witchcraft derived from the teachings of the ancient Welsh Bards and practiced by Keith Morgan of Wales.
4. 4.) A Southern Wales tradition called Nementon, which was brought to the U.S. by the late Gwydion Penderwen, who founded the tradition in the 60’s and 70’s in California, and is being carried on by his initiates.

WICCA:

1. 1) The contemporary pagan religion predating Christianity. Expresses reverence for Nature, viewing Diety in all natural things; uses magick; worship is of God (Lord) and Goddess (Lady). A follower of Wicca, is a Wiccan.
2. 2) Meaning: wise ones, and/or to turn, bend shape. Wicca is often termed the ‘new name’ for Witches, and there seems to be some argument as to its proper use.
3. 3) A religion of experience rather than dogma.
4. from an old AngloSaxon word Wiccae, a masculine noun meaning wizard; the feminine form of the word is Wicce.
5. the British Traditional family of Witchcraft religions derived from Gerald Gardner’s tradition.
6. any of the modern eclectic Witchcraft traditions obviously related to the Witchcraft described by Gerald Gardner in his published books.
7. a Word which has come to mean Witch or Magick worker.
8. the Shamans or Medicine Men of the Celtic Tribe or the Witches of the village. This was the Herb Woman or Cunning Man of the English community of medieval times.

AngloSaxon, wicca is masculine wicce, feminine; and means a person who Divines information. Old English, wicce Saxon, wych; means ‘to turn, bend, and shape’. IndoEuropean root word of ‘wic’ ‘weik’; also means ‘to bend or shape’. Germanic ‘wit’, means knowledge, or to know. Including ‘witch’ as one of its derivatives.

WICCANCRAEFT:
Witchcraft or the Old Religion. Word of Germanic derivation.

WICCANING:
the act of parents, promising to rear their child in the Wiccan culture...SEE PAGANING or SAINING.

WIDDERSHINS:

1. to move counterclockwise within a ceremonial circle or ritual area. opposite of Deosil.
2. 2) It is the counterclockwise movement around a circle, to disperse or tear down negative energy. Used in binding spells.

WISE ONES:
the personifications of traditional God/desses and Hero/as, and ancient teachers.

WITCH:

1. Sometimes used name of a follower of Wicca.
2. Ancient, European practitioner of folk magick, especially that of herb and ‘simple’ magicks. NOTE:
   Saxon for ‘wych’.
3. initiated male or female member of the Old Religion; one skilled in the ancient wisdom; practitioner of Witchcraft.

WITCHCRAFT:

1. a family of Pagan traditions deriving from pre-Christian Europe.
2. European folk Magick.
3. Sometimes used by Wiccans as a synonym for Wicca.
4. the practice of Magick.
5. the craft used by Witches, which is Magick. Especially, that utilizing personal power with the energies of natural objects.

WORLDS, BETWEEN THE:
other aspects dimensions of the physical, spiritual, psychological, etc.

WORT:
an ancient word meaning herb, as in mugwort.

WORSHIP:
in Paganism and Wicca, this means to become one with the gods during a group or personal rite and to endeavor to draw the essence of a goddess or god within, to see and understand from their viewpoint.

WRAITH:

1. see SPIRIT subjects.
2. an old term sometimes used to denote the astral body.

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