pentagram

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Dont you love how christians decided a perfectly good wiccan / pagan symbol such as the pentagram should become a symbol for the other 'bad' make believe character in their fantasy.

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  1. noun See pentacle.

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  • "So," he wheezed as he waved his gnarled stick toward a chair across the pentagram-inscribed table from him. —  Triplet
  • The demon pounded its fist at the air above the pentagram, and made it look just as if there were an invisible wall there. —  Vale of the Vole
  • Humfrey took a tiny bottle from the shelf, shook it, and set it on the floor in the middle of a pentagram-a five-sided figure. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • The pentagram was for containing the demons released from their magic bottles; even a studious demon was a creature of hell. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • A mirage was forming way out over Portovenere, and though there was no wind to deface the pentagram or stir Josephine's skirt, Crawford felt something massive rushing toward them across the miles of ocean. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
 

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  1. from Greek πεντάγραμμος, of five lines or strokes. from πέντε, five. + γραμμή, a line, a mark: see gram.
 

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/ˈpɛntəgræm/
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