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Commonly Used Pagan Terms
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| Witchfinder |
A cleric or other person who seeks out and tortures alleged Gothic Witches. |
| Witchmark |
Blemish supposedly placed upon a Gothic Witch by The Devil as a sort of membership card or identification device. |
| Wizard |
From the Old English "wys-ard," meaning "wise one." Originally may have referred to anyone whose wisdom was respected; later came to mean a male witch; now used to mean a powerful and wise magician. |
| Words of Power, Law of |
"There exist certain words that are able to alter the internal and external realities of those uttering them, and their power may rest in the very sounds of the words as much as in their meanings." |
| Xenophobia |
A morbid fear of that which is new, different or strange; common among professional debunkers of minority belief systems. |
| Yantra |
A Tantric diagram or chart. |
| Yin-Yang |
Chinese symbol for the Laws of Polarity and Synthesis. |
| Yoga |
Literally means "yoke" or discipline. With no qualifying adjective, usually refers to Hatha Yoga (discipline of the body). |
| Yule |
The feast of the Winter Solstice, Birth of the Sun, etc. |
| Zener Cards |
Cards used in most of the early ESP experiments, developed in the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University. |
| Zombie |
(1) Someone supposedly raised from the dead by a Vodun magician, possibly never really dead at all but rather drugged, who is used as a slave. (2) Someone who has joined a repressive "cult" movement, lost their own personality and other intellectual faculties, and is used as a slave. Easily identified by the characteristic "glazed eye" look and inability to continue their conversation if interrupted several times in mid-partyline |
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