Post by iGoddess on Feb 22, 2017 12:41:03 GMT
Alongside Incantation's specific terminology and such, it still occurs in the universe/world of Vampire, as a series so refer to that glossary here:
vampiretheseries.boards.net/thread/3/glossary-vocabulary
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These are terms which would be known to most witches or people involved in their world, terms will be added on as the show goes on.
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Alchemy - Alchemy is both a spiritual and magical practice and a philosophy. Its aim is famously to achieve immortality but also to achieve wisdom through transformation of both the alchemist and the substances he or she manipulates.
Amulet - An amulet is an object that is carried or worn on a person or placed in a location in order to draw specific energy or luck toward that person or location.
Asperge - Asperging is a form of ritual purification involving the sprinkling of liquid on the item, person or area to be purified.
Astral Body - The astral body is the theoretical subtle or spiritual body, a third option between the eternal soul and the body, though some believe that the astral body and the soul are equivalent. The astral body maintains your personality separate from your physical body, the mind and emotions, separate from the physical brain. Some refer to this body as the etheric body. The word "astral" means "of the stars".
Attuned - When two objects are attuned to one another, they vibrate in harmony. Their energies are alike or aligned through a process of attunement.
Aura - Energy field emanating from the surface of a person or object. This emanation is visualized as an outline of cascading color and may be held to represent soul vibrations, chakric emergence, or a reflection of surrounding energy fields.
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Bath Tea - A bath tea is an herbal bath with both healing and magickal applications. To create a bath tea, herbs are placed in a cloth bag and water is poured over the bag as the tub is filled to infuse the water with the properties of the herbs within the bag. The bag may also be placed directly into the bathwater with the bather.
Binding/Linking - A binding spell is a spell that symbolically ties the target up restricting his, her or its actions or keeping him or her (or it) tied to another individual, object, place or situation.
Blue Moon - In modern vernacular, the term "blue moon" most often refers to the occasion of an extra full moon occurring in a month. Most months have only one full moon, but sometimes there will be a second full moon in a month known as the blue moon. This can occur during any month of the year, except February.
Book of Shadows - A book which belongs to White Magic Umbra ancestors. Not much is known about the book as it keeps within the Umbra family, and myths are it plays a critical role in keeping the balances of the supernatural world.
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Centering - Centering is an energetic practice. When we center ourselves we gather our energy, which may be scattered in many different places, and we harness it toward our intention.
Ceromancy - Ceromancy is a method of divination using a candle. The candle is lit and the flame examined for clues to the mood and energy surrounding the situation and then the wax is allowed to drip into a bowl of cold water or sometimes onto a piece of paper. The practitioner examines the shapes formed by the melted wax and makes predictions based on his or her interpretation of the shapes.
Chakra - Chakras can be viewed as "gateways" in the body through which subtle energy flows. These gateways, or nodes, are also points at which the subtle (or astral) body and the physical body are connected.
Chalice - The Chalice is a magical tool used in many magickal rituals in a variety of traditions. It is used to represent the female element and the element of water.
Channel - A channel is the person or thing through which energy or information flows.
Charm - A charm is any item worn by an individual for magickal effect, especially one that bears magic words, an incantation or a magical symbol. This could include an amulet or talisman or any piece of magical jewelry.
Coven - A coven is a tight-knit, usually small (3-13 traditionally, occasionally up to 20) community of Witches, Wiccans.
Curse - A curse is a general term for negative energy attached to an individual, item or location that causes misfortune to surround the target.
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Dark Moon - The dark of the moon refers to the end of the lunar cycle when the moon is absent from the sky.
Dream Pillow - A dream pillow is a pillow stuffed with fragrant herbs that encourage sleep and/or dreaming.
Dream Work - Dream work is any magical or mystical work done in dream space, or while sleeping.
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Elixir - An elixir is a magical potion designed to bring about transformation or a medical potion designed to bring about healthy change over a long period of time.
Equinox - The equinox is the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator. At this time, the hours of daylight and darkness are approximately equal.
Ever After (1) - The substance used by demons/their abilities, it's usually a black and red smoke/mist to the naked eye.
Ever After (2) - The parallel universe, unseen by anyone except a demon and their familiar(s). If a human enters this, they do not age for the amount of time they're there.
Evil Eye - The evil eye is a belief that exists in some form in most cultures. The basic idea is that if someone feels envy or jealousy and spends too long gazing a the object of their envy, their feelings can be transmitted to in the form of a bad luck curse or illness. In most cases, the envious person does not intend to harm the object of their envy but the energy of the envy takes on a life of its own.
Evoke - To evoke a spirit is to call it up, to summon it forth, to bring it into the place where you are, particularly in hopes of gaining its favor.
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Familiar (1) - A familiar is a magic-user's spiritual helper manifest in animal form.
Familiar (2) - Can also refer to a demon's slave, who is linked/binded and trapped in the ever after, usually this is a human being the demon has taken a liking to, for good or bad reasons.
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Grimoire - A Grimoire is a magical manual or a magician's instruction book. Every witch ancestor/name has one for their generations to come; witches use this as a journal to learn and write down their experiences, and any new spells they conjured up. This way, spells as such remain the family's secrets.
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Hekate [also known as Hecate] - Queen of the Ghosts, Mother of Witches, Mistress of Magic, Hekate... [bestows] magical knowledge... connected with "love, metamorphosis, and pharmaka" She [holds] the secrets to the workings of magical spells, charms, enchantments, and the medicinal use of potent healing and destructive substances. Another of Hekate's appellations was the "Distant One," and her magic was known for its far-ranging airborne movement and its capacity to strike far from home. Hekate [is] skilled in the arts of divining and foretelling the future. As she looks three ways at once, Hekate gives us an expanded vision whereby we can stand illuminated in the present and simultaneously see warning or promise of the future from the Great Above or call back the past from the Great Below. She gives us dreams and prophetic visions, whispers secrets to our inner ears, and enables us to converse with the spirits of the dead and unborn. Hekate bestows the power of ancestral communication with the psychic world. Hekate was both the giver of visions and the sender of madness. Dark Moon Goddess brings is not rational thinking, but is more like the radiant suffused light upon which are borne the inspired visions of artists, dreamers and seers. However, her light may bring more insight than a person can bear and result in chaos, shattering the illusions of the human mind. Hekate is also responsible for a condition called lunacy, which is usually regarded as a particular effect of the moon. While today the term lunatic has a negative connotation that implies a wild, crazed person, this was not always the case. When one was moonstruck, a condition sent by Hekate, the shroud of confusion that enveloped a person often carried a clear stream of divine madness. In the initiatory traditions of many primitive cultures, a quality that in modern times appears to be mental derangement was specifically cultivated by aspirants. This temporary state of insanity was believed to facilitate the descent of the vision, the prophetic insight, or magical work to be performed. Hekate is one of the oldest embodiments of the Great Triple Goddess, known as Hekate Triformis, who expressed her threefold dominion over many realms; Statues of this goddess often depict her as three female figures, or crowned with a triple-turreted headdress, or with three heads. Her three faces reflect the triple extension of her powers over heaven, earth, and underworld.
[Dumbed down, so if you don't wanna read all that, don't blame you XD]
- Had powers over 3 realms, Heaven, Earth, Underworld [Hell]
- Was able to attack from very far, no need to be present
- Responsible for 'lunacy' or madness under the moon -- it was used to better spells, or magick in general, giving people freedom to explore the locked areas of their minds
- Was skilled in many magick arts, divining, foretelling the future, healing, regeneration, destruction, love, almost all things known now a days
Hex - In common language the word "hex" is often used synonymously with the words curse or jinx to refer to an unfriendly spell meant to bring about mischief.
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Kaez - Unknown/Unverified
Knot Magic - Knot magic, also called cord magic, involves casting spells using the physical act of tying and/or untying knots to bind or release the spell(s).
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Ley line(s) - Conduits of supernatural energy that surround or run through a planet. Energy otherwise unseen by the naked eye, and witches can tap into, for extra power.
Lucid Dreaming - Lucid dreaming is active dreaming. Not just knowing you're dreaming, but dreaming also with intent; actively directing your dreaming.
Lucifer - Lucifer, also known as The Devil, Light Bringer, The Morning Star, and Satan, is the second of the four Archangels created by God and was his favorite son. He is also a fallen archangel, and the first fallen angel. He is the original ruler of Hell and the creator of demons, seen by them as a father figure and their god. According to Gabriel, Lucifer is, or at least was, God's favorite and most beloved celestial, but when God asked for all angels to bow down to humanity, Lucifer refused both out of jealousy and wounded pride over being commanded to bow to what he saw as a broken, flawed, and murderous species and no longer feeling he was God's favourite creation. He waged a war against God but was eventually cast out of Heaven by God, and banished to Hell into a cage.
Deepest part of Hell, Lucifer's cage:
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Mark of Hecate - It's just widely know as Hecate's mark, without of it's true purpose or back story. It is involved in Witches' history, talking of Hecate being cursed, and thus the mark was called after her. The witch story is known by many titles, some known as "Devil's Witch", "Forbidden Underworld Magic", "Demons Fonte of Darkness". [Check S for Story!]
Moon Water - Moon water is water that has been charged with the energies of the moon.
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Necromancy - Necromancy is the practice of contacting the dead in order to request their aid or counsel.
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Omen - An omen is an unusual event that foretells a greater event. Omens can be good or bad.
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Seeker - A seeker is a student of magick who has not yet settled on a specific path or established a magickal identity but is open to exploration and eager to absorb information.
Smudging - Smudging involves burning of herbs to release their aromatic scent in order to purify an object, person or area.
Snake [Symbolism] - Represents a painful experience that will put an end to a mistake, in order to prevent it from worsening in the future. In dreams the snake represents the intervention of divine providence.
Solitary Witch - A solitary witch is one who practices alone, without a coven or circle either by choice or necessity.
Spell - A spell is focusing energy to achieve a goal. A spell is intentional magick.
Supreme - The Supreme Witch, known more colloquially as The Supreme, is a worldwide status recognized among the witches descended from the Salem Witch Trials. While most witches possess only a handful of inherent supernatural gifts, the Supreme is said to embody multiple, if not all. To be identified as the Supreme, the witch in question must have mastery over either all Dark Magick abilities: Necromancy, Blood & Bones bending, Energy manipulation , Illusion magick, Possession, Demonic magick. Or Mastery over all the Light/White Magick abilities: Healing magick, Element magick, Telekinesis, Conjuration, Malignancy Nullification.
HOWEVER, there have only been a total of 8 Supremes since the beginning of time, that were registered [witches who completed training under watch, not using outside forces to get them all] this means a Supreme is very rare, and only 1 resides in Byoak/currently alive.
Story [Many title versions such as: "Devil's Witch", "Forbidden Underworld Magic", "Demons Fonte of Darkness" - This story can be read amongst Elders' books, or first + second generation witches' grimoires ONLY. Cannot be traced or found amongst Academy library or normal books, or even the internet. The story/myth has been passed down since the begining of time, so the true origin or story of it is unknown, but the version of today's tale goes something like so:
Hecate broke God's trust, by visiting Lucifer in his cage, which God put him away in. [Check L for Lucifer, short summary of his myth there]. God initiated a fight with his army of angels, against hecate and her almost everything. She lost, and was cursed with a mark which made her like a fallen angel, but a fallen God instead; banish to Earth. She was humanised and all she had was her abilities, but she felt different -- she felt. Her whole existence of serving God, she only knew missions, never felt. After some blanks within the story and history, it picks back up where a witch fell in love with the Devil/King of Hell, he offered her everything in exchange for her soul, to remain eternally in Hell as a under ruler; he had her soul, and she got to tap into demonic magick, and dark magick which included a lot of blood usage and ashes, etc; The witch grew with power, and the two eventually had twin girls, one is Abbadon, the other known as the 'dreamer'. The girls were demons but full witches, but they couldn't leave Hell, Abbadon was a daddy's girl, and quickly became the favourite, as for 'dreamer', she was the dreamer, wanted to see the surface, and one day she made her escape, she came face to face with a group of witches, knowing her father's business, and tried to right the wrongs -- they didn't take her seriously and ushered her out.
The witch kept an eye on the girls, and quickly saw the 'dreamers' power growing, and her getting weaker, as she managed to come to the surface overriding ever after magick. So, the witch made a plan with surface witches, get the 'dreamer' alone and she'll put a curse on her. [So the opening scene ep2 happens, very small summary of that, watered down version, no details, as this is folklore/myth-like.]
The witch got her magick back, and since Abbadon remained in Hell, she wasn't pulling on her mother's magick, keeping the witch happy and powerful. She banished the 'dreamer' from Hell, giving her false memories as if her father banished her, and was chasing her down with hell hounds.
The way the story ends, is the dreamer ends up cursed and roams amongst 'us' as a "Royal", first of the kind.
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Trance - A trance state is one of half-consciousness in which the practitioner is connected to another state of being. It is associated with hypnosis or self-hypnosis, and is often used to describe various altered states of consciousness.
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Warlock - The term warlock is often used to denote a male witch and some male witches embrace it though many consider it a derogatory term.
: The power to repulse and nullify attacks with evil intent/intentions against oneself.
Best time for all magick users is evening once the sun begins setting up until 3AM. It is when you can channel the ancestors for their magick -- this is mainly for those who are rookies, and those who want to be really at their prime/optimum using their magick at it's fullest force.
Transit of Venus across the sun, 
