The coven ritual sword, censer, bowl of salt, bowl of water, copper or silver circlet, horned helmet, talismans, Seax (the athame), round altar (or tree stump), candles (4 to 7 for quarters), 3 altar candles (god/goddess, altar candle), shield/staff (for the Thegn).

As far as ritual garbs: the coven may go sky clad or short tunics. This is optional and a preference of the group. Priest-ess usually wears White garbs if not going nude.Members wear green, yellow or brown by personal choice and often wear a leather belt to hold the sheathed Seax.

The Saxon word for magick is Galdra. The Saxon word for magician or one in the craft is Galdorcraeftig, meaning one who is proficient in magick. In Seax it is permissible to protect oneself both mundanely and magically. Seax do not view sending the spell back to the originator of harm as breaking any rules but the Saxon will never be the one to cause the harm in the first place. We will protect ourselves by whatever means is necessary. Seax have morals and ethics to follow but do not stick to the Wiccan rede as closely as most Wiccans do.

Seax does not follow the terms White & black magicians. It only goes by helpful magick and harmful magick. The Gesith uses his/her Seax (athame) to create a sacred space or protection circle. If further shielding is necessary, the coven could help out in the magick or the Gesith could create a Witches bottle against the perpetrator and reflect that magick back them.

Other forms of magick and working are utilized in Seax-Wica as well. In Seax the term for divination is Hwata. This can be forms of divination like tarot reading, rune reading, scrying (fire, crystal or water) and other types of augury. Seven wands may be used in divining and are known to the Seax as the Saxon wands or “Witan wands.”

Which of the many Gods and Goddesses does the Seax Wica honor? They honor two. They honor Freya as the Goddess and Woden as the God. This is similar to other religions or groups.

Woden of the Saxons is a little bit similar to the Nordic Odin, but not quite. He was thought to be a sky deity or storm God. Freya of the Saxons is equivalent to the Roman Goddess Venus and the Greek Aphrodite. Freya was born of the Mother Earth and her name means Lady and is referred as most lovely as the goddesses by the Norse. The God and Goddess are both viewed of as equal as is the Priest and Priestess of the Saxons.

Woden was accredited to developing the runic alphabet we still use today. The Seax uses the “Futhorc” style of Runic alphabet for all writings. The Futhorc runes are called so by the first six letters of the alphabet being f u r th o r c. There are other formations of the runic styles but we stick to the Futhorc mostly.

They were warriors in the Indo-European areas of ancient times. They migrated, fought and conquered the lands of Western Europe. They were practicing Pagans during the first five generations of England, according to Mr. Buckland. They also worshipped four main deities:

Woden
Thunor
Tiw
Frig or Freya

They migrated west by ship instead of by land. They were a Teutonic race living in remote areas of Germany. They were first mentioned by Ptolemy in the second century. They and the Angles, Jutes, later attacked Britain and defeated the Roman Empire in Britain and established the English race.

Well, this concludes the Seax-Wica article. I hope it has been helpful to studies and may you walk away with more knowledge of the Saxons. *For more information on the Saxons or Seax Wica get the book by Ray Buckland, it is really worth it.

You may also want to visit this site on Seax Witchcraft:

Seax.org for more information.

or
Seax Wica Forum USA for more information.