1995 VHS • Making Wiccan Initiation Tools 60 FPS

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Making Wiccan Initiation Tools is an instructional video produced as part of a Wiccan correspondence course, covering the construction of the athame (ritual knife) and the ankh. The host, an older man teaching from what appears to be a home workshop, opens by noting that all specifications are contained in Lecture 5 of the accompanying course materials and that the tools can be made with simple hand tools: a clamp, hacksaw, wood saw, tape measure, chalk, nails, and a yardstick. He emphasizes having fun and not forcing uncomfortable work, noting that an 80-year-old grandmother in a New York apartment can produce beautiful tools at a kitchen table.

The athame section covers selecting a blank of aluminum or other non-ferrous metal sourced from the school, the light-colored handle requirement (never black), the distinction between a ritual knife and a stabbing knife, marking out the blade profile freehand, cutting the tang, cutting the blade curve, fitting and slotting the guard, and engraving the required symbols in the correct direction. The ankh section covers sourcing willow fronds, forming the oval loop on a forming board with a nail as a pivot, establishing the correct loop-to-cross-piece proportions using the cross piece as a measuring unit, and binding the cross piece into the ankh with crisscross willow binding. A grand ankh, twice the standard size and yielding a coven circle, is also described. The tape runs approximately 100 minutes and closes with repeated background music as the final content fades.

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The Vista Group®

Language

English

Subtitles

English

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