A curved ritual knife used for carving magickal tools and cutting and preparing ingredients for magickal workings, celebrations or devotions. The handle is often white in contrast to the black handle of the athame. Also called a boleen, boline or burrin, this tool is associated with the masculine side of nature because it is used for mundane and preparatory ritual actions.
The white-handled knife, used in Wiccan and magic rituals, for practical purposes such as cutting herbs or piercing pomegranates. Compare with Athame.
Knife used by a Witch for practical ritual purposes, such as cutting fruit or paring candles; often white-handled and single-edged; some witches see the boline as sickle-shaped and bone-handled
a curved knife, with a blade that looks something like a crescent moon
Also BOLEEN - A White handled ritual working knife. This is usually the knife used for cuting herbs, cords, or other utilitarian uses while in ritual.
a white-handled, single edged working knife
the "working" knife, usually with a white handle. Some witches use these as their actual cutting knife for cutting herbs and such. I personally don't use one.
a Witches working knife used for cutting cords, working with herbs, etc...
In Wicca the boline is a white-handled ritual knife. Unlike the athame, which in most traditions is never used for actual physical cutting, the boline is used for cutting cords and herbs, carving candles, etc. It has a small, straight or crescent-shaped blade and a handle which is traditionally white in colour.