Athame

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"That's an athame. It's a ceremonial tool.  Witches use them to direct energy." ~ Andy Trudeau in Something Wicca This Way Comes

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An athame is a double edged ceremonial knife. Witches often use Athames in their daily practice and rituals in order to direct energies. Warlocks generally use athame's in their ambitions to kill witches in order to steal their powers. Belthazor also enjoyed killing witches with athames, had several in his altar, and could also conjure them. Also, Bianca, the Phoenix witch assassin, could conjure athames.

Athames are also shown to be a powerful weapon to kill and wound strong Demons. In the episode "Power Outage", Piper uses Belthazor's own athame to stab him, in the process, removing some of his flesh for a vanquishing potion. In the episode "Black as Cole", Belthazor uses an athame to kill Sykes. In the episode "Charmed and Dangerous", Piper destroys the demon guardian of the hollow using an Athame.

Lastly, Athames can also be used in conjunction with scrying. An Athame can be used to locate its conjurer/owner by hanging the crystal's chain from the blade and cycling the crystal over a map.

Instances of Use and Appearance
The first appearance of an athame was on Serena Fredrick's altar in "Something Wicca This Way Comes". After she is stabbed to death by the warlock, Jeremy Burns, Andy guesses that she was killed by an athame and Darryl confirms that she was killed by a double edged steel blade.

In the unaired pilot and Something Wicca This Way Comes, Jeremy, when he had cornered Piper, showed her he could ignite the ends of his finger tips with the power he obtained from Serena and attempted to stab her to death with his athame. Near the end of the epsiode Jeremy used his athame to direct a Fire ball at the sisters, which he then turned into a fire circle and a wind vortex.