@thatdelphox@occult.camp @kara@occult.camp omg Wiccan Fundamentalists can be SO FRICKIN' OBNOXIOUS about stuff, I'm still mildly scarred and tend to have snotty snarl-responses to such things as a knee-jerk reaction. "IT'S JUST A KNIFE. ANY KNIFE CAN BE AN ATHAME. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE A BONE HANDLE CARVED IN MOONLIGHT BY A PRIESTESS CONSECRATED BY you know what forget it."
basically, like everything else in magic practice, it's as sacred/ritualistic as you want/need it to be. ;)