The pentacle is a five pointed star with a circle around it. (one point on top) The pentacle is the symbol of the witch religion. The pentacle is what witches use to promote their love. The points of the pentacle each stand for their own element earth, air, fire, and water. Some witches like to include spirit. Spirit is a mixture of all four. When there is no circle around the pentacle it is called a pentagram. The pentacle means many other things to, like the astral man sticking out his five arms. The elements are the most I've heard associated about the pentagram though. The circle around the pentacle symbolizes how the entire earth and all it's inhabitents are protected by divine energy. The pentacle can be used to seal a spell, when your done doing magick dip your index finger in scented oil and make the symbol of the pentacle over your work to seal the magick. That's just one use for the pentacle! The pentacle is sometimes used as a symbol for the Earth. (Which is what I associate it with!)
Now let's deal with an upside version of what we've just talked about. If you wear either the one above or below in public someone is bound to call you a Satan Worshiper! (or a devil worshiper) They just don't know better! I'm going to tell you about that in a while. This means just about the opposite of what the other one means. It actually attracts evil spirits! An inverted pentacle is called a goat's head (don't ask me why). Some times hardly ever or never at all witches wear this for a certain ritual. The inverted pentacle represents coas.
Now might be a good time to talk about Witches, Satanists, and Devil Worship..
Okay, let's talk more about witches. As I told you in my Witches Page Witches Don't Believe In Saten! However, there are some people that harm people with magick anyway. So, their not witches anymore. If you break the rules on pourpose your not a witch anymore! (I should put the rules on this site sometime basically be a good person, that includes little white lies) They kind of made up their own religion. They really have no right calling themselfes witches! They call themselves Satanic Witches, remember that. You have to know what to say when people accuse you of doing bad things!, It'll spread like wildfire! Not all Satanists are bad like that though, their religion isn't bad. *Warning: I am about to say nice things about Satanism, if you are a teen witch you'll probably have a hard time if you repeat this to your non-magickal parents* The religion of Satanism believes themselves as God. They worship Satan because he represents the lust that creates love! Satanists are not crazy people that sacrafice babies or anything like that!, they are normal people just like everybody else. Some Nut House people are attracted to this religion, but the religion itself is not evil! When you hear about missing kids on the radio or something like that, I read that the police usually know what happened, Devil Worshipers sacraficed the kid! The police were too scared to tell the parents even. (Not that you can blame them) My point? Satanism and Devil Worship are two completely different religions!