covenstead

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkʌvn̩ˌstɛd/

Noun

covenstead (plural covensteads)

1. (Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.
   • 1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link ↗

     It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.

   • 1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29 ↗,

     If that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead.

2. (Wicca, by metonymy) A Wiccan congregation.
   • 1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, 2005, page 104,

     For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.

Translations

• Spanish: santuario de brujas, templo de aquelarre, santuario, escondite

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