Wand Normally constructed of wood, and most times having a crystal on either one end or both, it is used for spells chants and other magick.

Web Weaving Networking with other magickal people through conversation in writing or by computer to gather information to mutually assist each party in their studies and life goals.

Wheel Of The Year One full cycle of the seasonal year beginning with the Samhain Celebration.

Wicca A contemporary Pagan religion with spiritual roots in Shamanism and the earliest expressions of reverence of nature. Among its major motifs are: reverence for the Goddess and the God; reincarnation; magic; ritual observances of the Full Moon, astronomical and agricultural phenomena; spheroid temples; created with Personal Power, in which rituals occur.

Widdershins Anti-clockwise motion, usually used in teh Northern Hemisphere for negative magical purposes or for dispersing negative energies or conditions such as disease. Southers Hemisphere Wiccans may use widdershins motions for exactly the opposite purposes; namely for positive ends, for the reason stated in the entry under Deosil. In either case, widdershins and deosil motions are symbolic; only strict, close-minded traditionalists believe that accidentally walking around the altar backwards, for instance, will raise nagativity. their use in Wicca stems from ancient European rituals practiced by peoples who watched and reverenced the Sun and Moon in their daily revolutions. Widdershins motion, within ritual contexts, is still shunned by the vast majority of Wiccans, though others use it once in a while, for instance, to disperse the Magic Circle at the end of a rite.

Witch Anciently, a European practitioner of the remnants of pre-Christian fold magic, particularly that relating to herbs, healing, wells, rivers and stones. One who practiced Witchcraft. Later, this term's meaning was deliberately altered to denote demented, dangerous, supernatual beings who practiced destructive magic and who threatend Christianity. This change was a political, monetary and sexist move on the part of organized religion, not a change in the practices of Witches. This latter, erroneous meaning is still accepted by many non-Witches. It is also, somewhat surprisingly, used by some members of Wicca to describe themselves.

Witchcraft The craft of the Witch - Magic, especially magic utillizing Personal Power in conjunction with the energies within stones, herbs, colors and other natural objects. While this may have spiritual overtone, Witchcraft, using this defintion, isn't a religion. Howevr, some followers of Wicca use this world to denote their religion.