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/əˈθeɪmeɪ/ · noun
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..
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.
Use athame when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Athame means 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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She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.
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