KARMA: Most Pagans believe in Karma, a checks and balances system of your actions. What comes around, goes around. Karma involves being totally responsible for ones self and ones actions.

MAGICK: Is the practice of using energy, directed by the will, in order to create change. This particular spelling is often preferred by Wiccans to separate it from stage magic or sleight of hand. Magick work is not necessarily connected to spirituality - some simply practice one or the other alone, while others use both. Common uses of magick include prosperity, protection, and healing. Prayer and meditation can be considered as forms of magick. Also see SPELL.

NEANDERTHAL: A type of early human, have a larger brain (relative to body weight) than that of modern people.  Their brains were not just larger but of a different shape or configuration. This has led researchers to speculate as to what things they might have been better and, and which things worse at than us. Some writers have suggested (tentatively) that they would have been poor at verbal language and arithmetic, but much better than us in the area of intuition and magick.

PAGAN: A follower of one of the nature or fertility orientated religions of the world. (The Christians and Jews often incorrectly use the term to mean everybody else but themselves). It word comes from  the Latin word paganus, meaning country dweller (similar to heathen - dweller on the heath).

PANTHEON: A set of DEITIES: Different religions use different god & goddess names, or different deities, and these make up the PANTHEON of that religion.

PENDULUM: A form of divination where a weighted object on a string is allowed to swing in certain directions, indicating yes, no, or unknown/maybe answers.

PENTACLE: A pentagram surrounded by a circle which symbolises unity. Witches often wear pentacles as pendants, and they are usually hidden beneath their clothes, to keep them close to the body and energised. Another reason is because of the negative connotations wrongly associated with the symbol by other people.

PENTAGRAM: Represents the four Elements plus Spirit. It also symbolises the body, and the 5 senses. The top point represents Spirit. In Wicca we wear the point upright to symbolise the Spirit having power over the physical world. In the purist sense, an inverted pentacle is not a sign of the devil, but a symbol that the wearer in on a journey not yet completed and still has much to learn. However, it has been adopted by some left hand path occultists to represent their belief in the supremacy of the physical world over the spirit. Because they have debased the inverted pentagram, modern Wiccans prefer to avoid confusion by not using it.

PSYCHOMETRY: Holding or touching an object and receiving images, impressions, or vibes from it.