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The boline is the practical knife - if you need to trim a too-long candle wick, cut up some herbs, etc. while in ritual, the boline is the tool you reach for, not your athame.
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The boline is the practical knife - if you need to trim a too-long candle wick, cut up some herbs, etc. while in ritual, the boline is the tool you reach for, not your athame.
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What this means is, not only could your dull athame be confiscated, your super-sharp non-Swiss Army boline could be, too, if it exceeds the legal blade length for your state (my boline, for example, is a bone-handled hunting knife with at least a six-inch blade).
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What's the difference between an athame and a boline?
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What's the difference between a boline and an athame?
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Traditionally, the boline also has a white handle, but I have known many witches who have gone to a camping store and purchased a perfectly good red-hilted Swiss Army knife to use as their boline (which has the added benefit of a built-in corkscrew with which to open the bottle of ritual wine!).
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Traditionally, the boline also has a white handle, but I have known many witches who have gone to a camping store and purchased a perfectly good red-hilted Swiss Army knife to use as their boline (which has the added benefit of a built-in corkscrew with which to open the bottle of ritual wine!).
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What's the difference between a boline and an athame?
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What's the difference between an athame and a boline?
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What this means is, not only could your dull athame be confiscated, your super-sharp non-Swiss Army boline could be, too, if it exceeds the legal blade length for your state (my boline, for example, is a bone-handled hunting knife with at least a six-inch blade).
treeseed commented on the word boline
The boline or bolline is a small, sickle shaped knife used to cut herbs used in rituals and spells, and generally, to perform any cutting tasks. The sickle shaped knife can be traced to Druid mistletoe customs, and is a lunar tool. It typically has a white handle.
January 20, 2008