See pentacle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1572, The Clavicle of Solomon, revealed by Ptolomy the Grecian [British Library Sloane MS 3847], London:",
"text": "if ye constraine any spirit to come before you and when ye haue shewed him ye secret pentacles, there is none dare say against your minde",
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"ref": "1949, Gerald Gardner, chapter 10, in High Magic's Aid, page 92:",
"text": "he drew a pentacle or five-pointed star.",
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"ref": "1954, Gerald Gardner, chapter 12, in Witchcraft Today:",
"text": "a five-pointed star (pentacle).",
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"ref": "1959, Gerald Gardner, chapter 8, in The Meaning of Witchcraft, page 122:",
"text": "the figure of the pentacle, or pentagram.",
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"ref": "2002, Kevin Saunders, Wiccan Spirituality: A Magical Attitude for the 21st Century, London: Green Magic, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:",
"text": "The pentacle—a pentagram enclosed within a surrounding circle—as found as the centre-piece on a witch's altar is often worn as a silver pendant by witches and other neo-pagans alike repesenting their beliefs in the interconnectedness and interdependence of the powers of nature and spirit.",
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"ref": "2006, Denise Zimmermann with Gleason, Katherine and Liguana, Maria, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft, Indianapolis: Alpha, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC BF1566.Z55 2006, page 146:",
"text": "A pentacle is a pentagram with a circle drawn around it.",
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"ref": "2007 March 1, Ruth Barr, chapter 5, in Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation, 2nd edition, Woodbury: Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC BL625.7.B39 2007, page 93:",
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"english": "It is also required, to have the incenses proper to the days that one did the operation; it is also necessary to see the water blessed by a Priest, a new earthen vessel, full of fire, the Garment and the Pentacle, as we have said",
"ref": "1547, Les Œuvres Magiques de Henri-Corneille Agrippa, Par Pierre d'Aban, Latin et Français, Avec des Secrets occultes, \"Heptameron\" p. 13:",
"text": "Il faut de plus, avoir les parfums propres au jour que l'on fait l'opération; il faut auſſi a voir de l'eau benite par un Prêtre, un vaſe de terre neuf, plein de feu, l'Habit & le Pentacle, comme nous l'avons dit",
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"english": "The Master who will be prepared for the ceremony by three days of fasting and abstinence and [cleansed] of all dirt, dressed in his white Garments, with the Pentacle, the Perfumes and other necessary things shall enter the Circle",
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