The physical measurement of a person taken during a Wiccan initiation and marked by knots on a cord. This may include both your height and girth, or the distance between finger tips when your arms are spread out. It is said to link the person to the coven.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...