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On the ground before her lays a puppet-like caricature of a man in a bowler hat, pierced through his chest by a basket-hilted hairpin.
The woman's eyes are dark as she holds another hairpin at the ready. What has this man done to be such anathema to her?](http://alkemiaperfumes.com/cdn/shop/products/Athame_{width}x.jpg?v=1680289477)
An arcane ceremony of melting wax candles, santalum, aloeswood and other rare ritual incense woods, and the metallic spirit of a copper athame.
"To Tomes of solid Witchcraft—
Magicians be asleep—
But Magic—hath an Element
Like Deity—to keep—"
-- Emily Dickenson
Art: L’Envoûteuse (The Sorceress) Georges Merle 1883