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How many of you guys use a boline?
updated 2 years, 1 month ago
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As a kitchen witch I just use whatever sharp knife I have available to cut herbs. I move too much to have many things just for the sake of having beautiful things. I try to keep my items as multipurpose as possible.
However, as a lover of beautiful tools, if my father was a bladesmith and I had a chance for a boline made by him or my own hands? In a heartbeat I’d do it!
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If I could get a cool knife I would use it.
But for symbolic/“it seemed right” reasons I’m using a child safety pair of scissors and a pocket knife in my magic.
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I use one, we’ll sort of. It’s not a beautiful ornate moon shaped knife it’s more like a billhook and I also did not buy it, my grandparents had it for their garden and when the downsized I grabbed it.
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I have a black handled Athame, double sided blade, not sharp. It is only for cutting and commanding energies and or spirits. I have a very sharp white handled Boline, not any odd shape, merely a good quality paring knife. It is for any craft related cutting, herbs and cords and whittling a new wand. All except for paper. For that I use a pair of consecrated shears/scissors. These are never used for mundane reasons, only for the craft. That’s it. BB.
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I have used a borrowed one in preparing for some British Traditional Witchcraft rituals. I have never had a boline of my own.
Coming from the Pacific Coast of the USA, there was no everyday custom of special tools for cutting things or inscribing things in candles or such. Knives were good for all that. So, I use knives. I waver about an athame, but tend to cut with mine, if I need to (kinda Kitchen Witchy, here).
However, a boline is formally required in some varieties of British Traditional and some other Trads of Craft. There is probably a small market for such items.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boline)
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I don’t use a boline, but I do use an athame. I tried looking for wands and kept seeing Harry Potter stuff and got put off enough that I said screw it, and bought an athame that I love that I use instead! I keep thinking about buying a wand but it always ends up not feeling right for me!
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>I’ve hardly seen them before
They’re more common among British Traditional Wiccans from what I’ve seen.
Other kinds of witchcraft outnumber British Traditional Wiccans, so it’s not surprising that it doesn’t seem common in the grand scope of things
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I use them, but you don’t have to have one to cut plants or herbs, what have you. You can use a knife, scissors, whatever, but be careful!
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It’s not necessarily a boline, but I have a deer antler knife my father gave me that I use for anything physical that needs done!
