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or unhappiness.
[ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ]
athame
The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of
four basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and
pentacle). Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged,
black-handled, cross-hilted dagger of between six and
eighteen inches length.
The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of four
basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and pentacle).
Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged, black-handled,
cross-hilted dagger of between six and eighteen inches length.
[]
A belt made from a twisted braid of silken threads of gold wound
around her waist, and a dark-handled knife rested on a slant at
her hip through a loop in the belt.
[...]
She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild. You
know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last encounter I
returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital balances. Those
balances had to be redressed, and your debt was the mechanism that
the Queen chose to employ."
I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My eyes
fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires gave you?"
She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't cheapen
it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was less a gift
than a trade."
"Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My faerie
godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time artifact of magic.
She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild.
You know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last
encounter I returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital
balances. Those balances had to be redressed, and your debt was
the mechanism that the Queen chose to employ."
I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My
eyes fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires
gave you?"
She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't
cheapen it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was
less a gift than a trade."
"Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My
faerie godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time
artifact of magic.
[ Summer Knight, by Jim Butcher ]
athen*
Athene was the offspring of Zeus, and without a mother. She