Arcane Glossary

This is a listing that is doomed never to be completed, because magic is such a wide subject. By the time individual tarot cards, astroloical terms, and alchemical terms get entered, this page would grow immense. I've tried to keep it in period as the terms and concepts changed, mostly around the 14th to 16 century.

Term	Definition
72 True Names	Aka 72 true names of the divine, a collection of letter triads derived eschatologically that have magical value
Abjure	Renounce a thing
Ablution	Ritual bathing
Abracadabra	Magic word, probably a corrupted anagram.
Abraxas	Magic word, probably a corrupted anagram.
Absolve	To release someone or something.
Adamantine	An all but indestructible material, part gemstone, part metal, used in alloys.
Adeptus	Also called ceremonialists, astromancers, ritual mages, hermeticists, magisters, and doctors of natural philosophy, these practice ceremonial magic.
Adjure	Solemn request for someone to do something, urgently request or swear, or forcefully to command a hostile entity.
Adumbrative	Foreshadowing or symbolizing, vague foreshadowing.
Aduration	Exorcising an illness, or attacking an illness head on.
Aegis	A shielding, backing, or protection.
Aeromancy	Divination by studying atmospheric conditions, and weather reading.
Aether	Aka quintessence or fifth element, a rarefied substance that fills the space beyond earth.
Aetheroturgy	This school covers the human soul and the subtle, aetherial plane that exists in tandem with the physical world.
Agricultural Magic	Spells for insuring the health and fecundity of livestock and crops, fending off disease, rot, and destructive weather.
Alakazam	Magic word.
Alarum	Magic warning alarms around self or perimeter.
Alchemist	Aka furniers, mage who practices hermetic magic.
Alchemy	Transforming substance from base material to refined material. Practical alchemy is material, and spiritual alchemy is mental.
Alkahest	The universal solvent that can dissolve any substance, including gold. Used in alchemy and healing.
Almondel	Wax plate that serves as a mobile altar in Angelogy.
Alraune	Female Demon.
Amulet	Aka amuletum or telism, a passive defensive device, it is usually a piece of jewelry or wearable object with spells written out on them
Anagram	Word created by rearranging the letters of another word used in Kaballah.
Ananisapta	Magic word used for protection versus disease and evil influences.
Anathema	Aka vindandi excommunicate. Extreme exclusion from the Church and salvation.
Angelology	Working with angels.
Anima Mundi	Also called Zeitgeist, the spirit of the world and perhaps the collective unconscious
Apotheosis	Aka henosism, elevation from mortality to divinity, or uniting with the divine to achieve perfection.
Apotropaic Magic	Object meant to deflect evil eye, curses, and evil magic
Apotropaic Mark	Etched or burned symbol to ward off evil magic
Apport	Conjuring in an item through solid interveners
Aquastor	Entity created and sustained by concentrated thought and focused visualization
Arcane	Understood by few, a secret (occulted) thing
Arcanum	Elixir used as stimulant for divination
Arch-Adeptus	senior adeptus
Archae Emanations	Astral light, related to stellar rays
Archimage	A very powerful magician
Arithmancy	Predicting and changing the future by an alpha-numeric cipher.
Art	A skill, byword for magic skill
Asomatic	Disembodied astral double that is anchored to its gross (i.e., corporal) body
Asport	Conjuring away an item through solid interveners
Astral	Non-physical realm that usually doubles the physical world in the astral, or subtle realm on higher vibratory existence
Astrology	Divination by studying astronomical movements practiced by an astrologer or weather spy
Athame	Ceremonial dagger used in energy work, ceremonies, and magic circles
Audition	Hearing noise without ears or physical means
Augury	Aka auspice, divination by bird watching, or foretelling future by interpreting omens
Aureole/Aura	Related to a halo, somewhat synonymous with a person’s ghost or astral double
Auspice	Divination by observing birds, positive augury
Automaton	Lifelike mechanical contrivance
Azoth	Universal medicine or universal solvent used in alchemy
Bane	the active element of a doom
Banish	Dismiss, exorcise, license to depart, and removal of unwanted forces or entities
Baptise	Purification, and rebirth by ceremonial immersion
Barbarous Name	Unholy names with terrifying power
Bard	Type of druid, a pagan poet who practices Bardry
Beatific Vision	Vision of the Divine and all the angels
Beautify	Recognize or confirm the subject’s holiness or saintliness
Bell of Art	Bell used in hermetic ceremonies.
Bewitch	Cast a spell over someone.
Bezoar	Magic stone in animal innards.
Bibliomancy	Divination by randomly opening books such as the Bible.
Bilocation	Mage physically appears in two locations simultaneously.
Binding	AKA Ensorclement, bewitchment, adjuration, fascination, charm, and enchantment. Attaching one thing to another, such as with a binding oath.
Black Magic	Left-hand path, evil magic, necromancy
Blasting	Folk curse
Blasting Rod	Ceremonial wand of yarrow or yew for conjuring and directing energy
Blessing	Aka benison or benediction, an approval, a transmission of divine grace
Body of Light	Also called a subtle body, this is a person’s astral or aetherial double, or as a soul, spirit, ghost, if his body is deceased.
Brandea	Object associated with subject, see “mumia”
Brazen Head	All-knowing, automated brass head that may speak, hear, and answer questions
Cant	Aka charm, chant, cantrip, enchant, or incantation, this is speaking or singing words to influence a subject or “charm” them, and the focused power inherent in spoken words. The state of being under an enchantment. Using magic words or speaking a spell.
Cantrip	Short spell
Cartomancy	Divining the future using a deck of cards. See tarot.
Casting	Releasing or throwing a spell at a subject
Catalepsy	Aka catalempsi, this is the motionless state of gross, material body during astral travel
Ceremonial Costume	Crown, robe, lamen, slippers, pointed hat
Ceremonial Magic	Aka ritual magic, high magic or learned magic
Ceremonial Magic	Aka ritual, learned, planetary or ceremonial magic. It revolves around a mix of hermeticism, astrology, Kaballah, gematria, numerology, magic squares and talismans, archae emanations, and planetary magic. Some consider this a science, and the magic spells as experimenta.
Channeling	Serving as the physical medium for an outside force or entity, an element of invocation
Charism	This covers extraordinary gifts such as prophecy and glossolalia, and usually it is associated with religious orders
Charm	Magic, affecting something by magic, or an object or act believed to have magic
Charm Stone	Talismanic shaped or grooved stone that is sometimes perforated
Chiromancy	Aka palmistry, divination by reading lines on the subject’s hands
Chthonic	Relating to underground/subterranean entities
Circumambulation	Walking in a circle. See closing the circle.
Cleansing Magic	Spells for removing/banishing curses, negative spirits, and bad luck from places and people
Cleromancy	Divination by casting lots, similar to cartomancy
Closing the Circle	Ceremonial operation used to open and close most spells. It creates a protective shell around the magician that focuses magic power within
Cold Iron	Unforged iron used to repel, contain, or harm ghosts, fairies, witches, vampires, or other malevolent supernatural creatures.
Compathy	Shared group empathy
Compulsion	Magical urge to behave in a certain way against one’s wishes.
Conductor	Material that conduct magic, including silver, human hair, silk, magnets, and water.
Cone of Power	Raising and focusing energy in ritual magic, part of closing the circle.
Conjury	Calling or conjuring something from elsewhere, sending something elsewhere, covering both apports and asport. Teleporting something from one location to another, make something appear from nowhere.
Consecration	Actively dedicating a place, person, or thing to a single purpose, while deconsecration is undedicating the same
Consign	To send away subject or deliver someone into custody
Corporeal	Having a material body, composed of gross matter
Correspondences	Symbolic links between materials used for spell casting.
Cosmology	Origin and order of the universe
Coven	Twelve witches plus their mistress
Craft	A skill, byword for magic skill
Craft Magic	Magic and occult information based around a specific craft like blacksmithing, weaving, art, etc.
Cunning Man	Aka folk magician, hedge wizard, or gray mage if male; or henwife, wise women, or crone if female. They practice low or gray magic and specialize in healing. There is still an element of shamanism in their craft.
Curative Magic	Type of medicinal magic to cure illness or disease, part of the humoral system.
Curse	Also called a malediction, execration, hex-death, malison, murrain, or mollochio, this is a spell to inflict harm or punishment transmitted by word, ritual, or by the evil eye.
Cyanathropy	Humans who can transform into dogs
Demon	Evil, non-human entity who delights in torturing and/or possessing mortals and stealing their mortal souls
Demon Bowl	Aka incantation bowl or devil-trapping bowl used for imprisoning demons and negative entities
Demonology	Harnessing demons for your use
Descry	Now known as astral projection, hedge jumping, or soul projection, this is an out-o-body experience, temporarily projecting your spirit double or ghost to another place or time (geo-temporal), or plane of existence (symbolic). This can be used while asleep or in a waking state.
Discernment	Wisdom and experience to comprehend what is happening.
Divination	Knowing the future, also called augury, foretelling, sixth sense, or second sight. There are scores of methods used.
Dowsing	Using rods or twigs to locate water, underground objects, or specific energies
Druid	These pagan wizards of old who are now extinct in Aorlis. They employed weather magic and astronomy and served as community judges.
Ecstasy	Aka rapture or exaltation, this is a mystic, self-transcendent state of overwhelming happiness or frenzy
Egregor	A purposely composed thought-form dedicated to a place or structure
Elemental	A supernatural entity created or summoned by magic, being salamanders (fire), undines (water), gnomides (earth), or sylphs (air)
Elementary	A spontaneous thought-form inadvertently born from group expectations or beliefs, often dangerous in their quest for self-preservation.
Elixir	A magical potion
Enchant	Aka cant, charm, enchantment, incantation, fascinous, fascinate, or bewitched.
Enchanter/Enchantress	Wizards who practice glamour, aka faerie magic.
Ensorcelled	See sorcery
Entelechy	Aka spirits, ministers, and daemons that are neither divine nor demonic but hold substantial ministerial power in the universe
Epistemology	Branch of metaphysics covering and the theory of knowledge.
Eschatology	Philosophy and magic centered on theology of death, the soul, prophecy and the end of the world.
Evil eye	Curse transmitted by sight, aka mollochio
Evocation	To call forth, to summon an entity before you, not into you. You evoke spirit a into a triangle of the art, you channel the magic externally, or call for a deity or spirit to aid you.
Exaltation	State of heightened awareness
Exegesis	Numerological method of interpreting scripture’s deeper truths
Exorcism	Forcibly banishing an entity such as a demon or unclean spirit
Extra-Retinal Vision	Sight through skin, not eyes
Exuvial	Sympathetic magic employing mumia
Faery Sight	Pierces illusion and invisibility, usually a salve applied to eyes
Fairy Dust	Magic dust that collects when faeries dance or when they create faerie rings.
Familiar	An imp who assumes an animal form and serves a witch, but steals her soul when she dies.
Famulous	Apprentice adeptus
Fetishes	Magic items in general, an inanimate object with magic powers or inhabited by a ghost or spirit
Fith Fath	Invisibility
Focus	A device used to focus and intensify concentration such as ring, wand, magic circle, etc.
Gamea	Box that harvests planetary/astrological power
Gate	A two-way bridge or portal across space-time or across planes of existence. Differs from a portal (spirit gate) because it’s a corporal gate.
Geas	a magically imposed prohibition or restriction which, if broken, soon leads to the subject’s death.
Gemetria	Cabbalistic interpretation of text by numerology
Geomancy	Divination by throwing handfuls of earth or stones, or arranging buildings and furniture by earth energy auspiciously.
Ghost	Aka spirit, umbra, undead, or entity, a discarnate mortal soul trapped on earth.
Glamour	Aka glam, grammar, glamour, grammarye, grimoire. It may be used to make something seem more attractive, bewitching, and enchanting. It is tied with language, specifically spelling and grammar.
Glossolalia	Aka xenoglossia, speaking tongues in a religious fervor, usually requiring an interpreter
Glyph	A pictograph or small graphic, a symbolic talisman
Gnome/Gnomide	Earth elemental
Gnosis	Knowledge of mystical matters and an enhanced state.
Goetia	Aka goety, this black, evil or demonic magic
Golem	A semi-sentient, animated robot formed of clay programmed to follow its creator’s commands
Gray Magic	Magic using the natural world, especially herbs.
Greal	Magic drink of enlightenment
Great Work	Aka magnum opus, alchemists’ long-term goal of creating the philosopher’s stone.
Grimoire	Aka book of shadows, a book of spells
Grimoire	Aka grammar or book of shadows, being related to words, spell books or books on demonology.
Gross Matter	the stuff of the material world, corporeal, material
Grounding	Dispelling excess magical energy into ground
Guide	A spiritual ally and guardian
Hagiography	The lives of saints
Heka	Magic energy in the Egyptian magic school
Hermeticism	Aka hermetic, a mystic school that encompasses astrology, Kaballah, alchemy, astrology and planetary magic, and it employs magic squares, advanced correspondences, and astrological charts
Hex	Cast a spell on a victim to bewitch or curse him.
Hexagram	Six-pointed geometric star symbolizing planetary forces
Hey Presto	Magical words
Hocus Pocus	Magic word
Holy Water	Will ward off or burn demons, unclean spirits, and vampires. It can seal portals to hell, or, if sprinkled on a corpse, prevent it from becoming undead.
Homunculus	Artificial miniature human sealed up in a fluid-filled glass bottle created by an alchemist.
Humoral Magic	Magic based on the humors of the four elements.
Humorism	Aka humoral medicine, the study of internal medicine relating to the four humors.
Hydromancy	Divination by water and its movement.
Ichthor	Demon blood.
Illusion	Aka mirage, phantasmagoria, or phantasma. This is magically disguising one thing for another. In medieval magic, the illusion is real and acts as a real thing during its short duration.
Illusionist	Aka legerdemainist, prestidigitator, or stage magician. These are not mages or spell users, but tricksters and entertainers who perform sleight of hand.
Immortality	Ceasing to age and possibly living forever
Imp	A diminutive demon that may assume animal form and act as a familiar.
Incantation	Aka cant or charm, to speak magic words aloud, or reciting a charm or chant (cant).
Incarnate	Object or being that manifests in corporeal material form
Incorporeal	Without a body, being ghostly and unmanifest
Incorruptible	A saint’s corpse that does not corrupt after death but smell of roses.
Inescration	Healing by transferring ills to plants by urination
Insufflation	Rapid shallow breathing pattern sometimes used in spell casting
Invocation	Aka invoke, kna mediumship. This is channelling magic or an entity through or into one-self, calling for a deity or spirit to aid a fervent plea, or to call in. There are three methods: devotion (surrender to entity), calling forth, and drama (suppressing one’s ego and losing self to the entity).
Irroration	Healing by transferring the patient’s ills to animals
Kabbalah	Also called gemetria, a type of exegesis that includes albam, atbash, avgad, milui, notarikon and temurah. This is a comprehensive system at the crossroads of theology, math magic, and other disciplines.
Kabalist	Magicians that excel at creating golems, animating objects, and most other schools of magic.
Knack	Clever or deceitful trick
Lampoone	Powerful curse that destroys victim’s reputation that usually is cast in song by bards.
Larvae	Damned human souls in Hell
Law of Names	All things have secret names, and if they are discovered, they grant magical power over the subject.
Legal Magic	Spells to win court cases and decisions.
Legerdemain	Sleight of hand.
Ligature	A thing used to tie or bind someone or something, usually a healing talisman inscribed with a spell, folded up, and worn
Lithomancy	Divination by reflected light from stones
Locate Lost Item Magic	Spells that can locate stolen property, and sometimes even force its return.
Locate Thief Magic	Spells that identify a thief, and possibly even force his return and confession.
Lodge	Aka fraternity, an established gathering of magicians.
Lost Word	Contains all secrets and grand unified theory, the Divine’s word of creation.
Love Magic	Erotic magic aimed at forcing others to love or desire the mage, most often for sexual purposes.
Low Magic	Also called folk magic, natural magic, or gray magic, it concerns healing, herbalism, curses, removing curses, and agricultural magic.
Lustration	Ritual bathing.
Lycanthropy	People who can transform into werewolves.
Magic	Aka magick, magik, mage, magus, and magi. This is working change through true will.
Magnetism	Magnets may be used to ground energy, for healing, and drawing good luck to you.
Manifestation	Aka creation, materialization, and incarnation. This is the act of making a non-corporeal subject corporeal.
Mantic	Aka -mant, -mancy, this is divination, or divining or relating to prophecy, also called fatidic.
Medicinal Magic	Aka healing magic.
Metaphysics	Branches include epistemology and ontology.
Mind Palace	Mnemonic method of storing and retrieving large catalogues of knowledge.
Miracle	An inexplicable thaumaturgical event, or a divine event channeled through a saint
Mollochio	Aka the evil eye.
Monas Heiroglyphica	Meta root symbol that syncretically spawned all things and may be used to control reality.
Monstrum	Artificial, malignant grotesque created by perverse sexual acts or putrified sperm.
Mortuary Magic	Spells and amulets to protect the dead and corpses, preventing them from reanimating as revenants, vampires, undead, etc.
Multilocation	Mage appears in three or more locations simultaneously.
Mumia	Portions of a victim (nail clippings, hair, etc.) usually used in sympathetic magic.
Muraine	The agent of disease.
Mysterium	Material object’s spiritual prime essence.
Mystic	Aka a prophet, a religious visionary who communes directly with the Divine for holy visions and spiritual gifts.
Mysticism	Direct communion with the divine
Necromancy	Also called demonology, diabolism, or nigromancy, valderie, and goety, used for summoning, banishing, or communicating with the dead or demons. Its meaning has expanded over time to cover all forms of wicked or black magic.
Necromantic Bell	Bell used to summon the dead.
Necromantic Mirror	Black, obsidian mirror used for scrying.
Necromantic Trident	Part of the necromancer’s equipment.
Nectromancy	True vision.
Neophyte	Aka lungs, an apprentice alchemist.
Notorium	Allows the magician to download a field of knowledge such as the Kabbala or rhetoric instantly.
Notriquon	Aka anacronym or acronym. This is a series of ciphers to transform holy texts into their true essence.
Numerology	Divining the symbolic meanings and powers inherent in numbers.
Numinous Spirits	Deity or spirit presiding over a thing or space, power focused through a saint, or planetary governors.
Nycomancy	Poison magic
Oath/Compact	Voluntary binding, or a spoken personal binding
Occult/Occulted	Secret things.
Omen	Negative augury.
Omnipresence	Being in all places simultaneously.
Omniscience	Knowing all things simultaneously.
Oneiromancy	Aka Oinomancy, dream work and dream magic, sometimes with the aid of oneirogen drugs.
Onomancy	Form of numerology used to interpret a person’s name to divine their future.
Ontology	Branch of metaphysics covering the nature of being and substance.
Open Sesame	Magic word.
Orichalcium	Rare, yellow metal from ancient times used in magic or alloys.
Paroptic Vision	Eyeless sight, or extra-retinal vision.
Pending Spell	A spell cast and ready to release, but saved for later.
Pendulum Dowsing	Divination by a pendulum's movements, includes pendulum map dowsing.
Pentacle	special amuletic device usually based around a five-pointed star within a circle. Considered good luck, but if inverted it is has an evil symbology.
Pentagram	Five-pointed star considered lucky and sometimes used in the pentacle.
Periapt	Item worn as a charm or talisman.
Philosopher’s Stone	Alchemical source of immortality, the secret of transmutation, and subject of the great work.
Philosophy	A science or school of magic.
Philter	Love potion.
Phylactery	Small leather box to keep a holy text in.
Physician	Aka doctor of medicine, those who practice humoral magic or humorism.
Planetary Magic/Power	Power harvested from planetary motion. It is the root of ceremonial magic, a hermetic astrological system, and is transmitted to earth through stellar rays.
Pocket Plane	Small plane of existence where space is unfolded, being larger on the inside than without. Usually fixed, but sometime relative as useful a near-infinite storage bag or box.
Poiesis	Making things.
Poppet	Effigy or doll representing a person, used as a sympathetic bond to affect its subject.
Portal	An invisible gate for spirits to come and go. Usually found in a fixed, stationary locations, perhaps on a wall, mirror, or even open air.
Portent	Neutral augury.
Powers and Dominions	Hell’s powerful demon ruling class.
Practical Alchemy	Forerunner to chemistry, focused on transmuting base metal to gold. This process revolves around mercury and sulphur.
Practice	Byword for the art or studying magic
Praxis	doing, engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.
Prayer	Solemn expression for help or thanks to the Divine. Divine evocation that is vocal, chanted, mental, meditated, or contemplative. Types are adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication.
Prediction	prophecy, reed, oracle, vanticination, or sooth.
Presentation	How an entity chooses to present himself, his chosen appearance.
Prestidigitation	Aka prestigiation, prestige, prestigious, prestidigitator. These are tricks that imitate magic or fool the senses, often employing sleight-of-hand.
Priest	Religious channelers of the Divine, an intermediary between man and the Divine. Despite similarities to adeptus, they do not consider their beliefs to be “magic,” but the channeling divine will.
Prima Materia	Aka first matter, this is the unmanifest stuff that becomes matter.
Psychomanteum	Mirrored infinite loop for scrying and opening portals.
Pyromancy	Divination by staring into fire.
Quintessence	Refined essence or extract of a substance, the balance at the center of the four elements
Rainmaking	Subset of weather magic.
Rapport	Special connection between two people.
Relic	Objects, usually saints’ bodily remains, fluids, or clothing, that may channel divine miracles. A class I relic is a saint’s physical remains, class II is the saint’s personal possessions, and class III is the objects the saint has touched or places he has performed miracles.
Resurrection	Bringing the dead back to life.
Revenant	The corpse of a loved one who rises from the grave to visit cruelty on his friends, family and community.
Rhabdomancy	Divination with rods, wands, staffs, sticks, arrows, etc.
Ritual	Aka rites, series of actions according to prescription, or religious or ceremonial act or observance, all central to most magic.
Rune	Letter from a runic alphabet that contains symbolic power.
Sa	Divine blood.
Sacerdotal Theurgy	Magician’s intellects ascends into the heavens to survey the construction of creation.
Sacred Geometry	The divine meanings and symbolism of geometric shapes and proportions. Used for occulted messages, architecture, and magic most often.
Saint	Deceased mortal of great holiness who becomes an intercessor after death, channeling divine aid for the innocent and faithful. Includes venerable (saint with one miracle), beautified (two miracles), saint (three or more miracles), and doctor of the church (contributed to theology/liturgy).
Salamander	Aka fire newt, a traditional fire elemental.
Salve	Ointment.
Sciomancy	Speaking with shadows, shadow magic.
Scry	Aka skry, scrying, scryer, and scrie. This is reading the future, seeing or knowing at a distance, and perception outside that of the senses evem across time and space.
Seal	Aka signum, or a sign.
Second Sight	Ability to see the past or future.
Seer	Aka seeing, one possesses second sight.
Seidre	Norse name for magic, usually confined to women.
Shew Stone	Aka show stone, a polished crystal used for scrying.
Sigil	Sign, seal, or symbol invested with magic power.
Sigillum Dei	Seal of God, or signum dei vivi, symbol of the living God, aka Sigillum Dei Aemeth, is an amulet (amuletum) for beatific visions or power over all beings but angels.
Signification	aka erodinium, a powerful symbolic vision
Silver Cord	A spiritual tether that ties spirit to body, and the body dies if the cord is severed.
Sim Sala Bim	Magic word
Simulacrum	Alchemically spawned imitation person identical to another person.
Sin Eater	A type of cunning man or henwife who eats and embodies the sins of the recently deceased, allowing the departed soul to access Heaven quicker.
Sky Clad	Naked for ritual.
Somatic Magic	Using hand signs in spell casting, aka gesture magic
Somatic Magic	Actions or movements used in rituals and spell casting.
Sorcery	Aka the black arts, the left-hand path or maleficium.
Sortilege	Divination by cards or pulling straws or tokens.
Soul	The soul and spirit are considered separate, but the distinction is unclear.
Soul Jar	Binding a magician’s life to an inanimate object. As long as the object is unharmed, the magician is unharmed. Object is usually hidden for the mage’s ongoing safety. If the mage’s body is destroyed, he is not killed, and may be reunited with or grow a new body.
Spatulamancy	Divination by looking at animal shoulder blades.
Spell	Aka spelling or experimenta. A magic rite or formula that manipulates reality in conformance with true will. Also, the grammatical spelling of a word, which itself is a sort of symbol or glyph that encapsulates an idea. Individual words are sound-based sigils of a sort. Ceremonial magic considers spells to be exempla, and sacred alchemy spells are called meditations.
Spell Caster	One who casts or throws a spell. This may involve somatic actions like throwing, or standing on one leg with one eye closed, and other variants.
Spiritual Alchemy	Process for transmuting a mage’s soul to perfection.
Spontaneous Generation	Creatures that grow from mud or other non-biological material.
Staff	See wand or blasting rod.
Stave	Rod carved with runes, an untriggered spell.
Stellar Rays	Radiant energy from each of the seven planets that the magician manipulates for spells. These are the fundamental building block of all reality.
Subtle	Very fine matter, ethereal, ephemeral, and insubstantial.
Summoning	Conjuration of an entity, see also asport and apport.
Sympathy	Things that are alike are spiritually connected and affect each other, see correspondences.
Talisman	Icon that harvests planetary/astrological power for protection, and a magic object for protection or good luck.
Tarot	Special deck of playing cards for used for divination, a form of cartomancy.
Tempestarri	Weather wizard who summons or banishes weather professionally.
Thaumaturgy	Wonder working and miracle making.
Theoria	Thinking, contemplation.
Therianthropy	Humans transforming into animals.
Theurgist	Aka thaumaturgist, prophet, saint, or wonder worker, a miracle maker related to mystics and priests.
Third Eye	A metaphorical, spiritual organ on the forehead that allows for a higher level of perception beyond the physical eyes.
Thrice Forged	Powerful magic weapons
Thrice-Forged	Powerful magic weapons, thought to be forged and reforged until it can chop an anvil in twain.
Tools	Spell-casting equipment such as an altar, wand, cup, sword, and pentacle, and sometimes a scourge, dagger, chain, oil lamp, and bell.
Transfiguration	When a medium temporarily assumes the bodily characteristics from a channeled ghost.
Transmigration	Soul passing from life to death.
Transmogrification	Aka metamorphosis, shape-changing, or transmography, spells that change the shape of beings or materials.
Transmutation	Physically changing one material to another.
Transubstantiation	Changing a material’s essence from one thing to another without changing its outer form.
Treasure Magic	Spells for locating lost or hidden treasure
Tree of Life	Kabalistic map of the spiritual universe
True Name	A secret name that expresses subjects’ true nature. If another person learns it, he may control the true name’s owner. See Law of Names.
True Will	The active element of mental power, focused intent.
Ululation	Long howls or wailing sometimes used in spell casting and energy work.
Umbra	Aka umbral, a ghost or shadow of the dead that lingers around a tomb. Umbral describes any ghostly thing, event, entity, etc.
Unclean Spirit	Demon or wicked spirit that aims to possess mortals.
Unction	Clear a dying person’s soul and help them go to Heaven.
Undine	Traditional water elemental.
Unguent	Greasy material used as salve or lubrication.
Unspoken Water	Ceremonial healing water specially collected
Vaulderie	Magic channeled from diabolical powers
Vibration	Vocal technique often used to cast a spell, usually low and sonorous.
Virtue	Power or essence associated with symbols, words, or ideas.
Volva	Meaning “wand wed,” a Norse woman witch who practices seidr magic
Wand	Staff, rod, sceptre, stave or stick used to focus magic or indicate a magus’ stature
Ward	Shielding aegis.
Warlock	Aka warlockerly, a betrayer and cross-dresser, not a male witch.
Weather Binding	Weather magic.
Weird	One's immutable fate.
White Magic	The right-hand path, good magic.
Wind Binding	Subset of weather magic for controlling wind.
Wise	Aka wyc, a byword for magic, also "wiz" equals wise or aged.
Wise Woman	Counterpart to male hedge wizard
Wish	Fervent desire, or the manifestation of true will in action.
Witch's Mark	Diabolical blemish on a witch’s body that identifies her as a witch. It is nerveless, and used to suckle her familiar.
Witchcraft	A witch is a folk magician skilled in curses and weather magic whom gain their powers from demonic compacts. Not to be confused with a wise woman, hen wife, or crone. Related to bewitch and witchery.
Wizard	Wise man, usually a magician of some type.
Working	Byword for casting or using magic, often a long involved spell.
Zephyr/Sylph	Traditional air elemental.