Intention · Certain
Banishing
A controlled ritual-intention term for banishing associations.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Explicit Source
driving-away custom
Banishing is used here in the narrow sense of the source's driving-away custom.
1 attestation · high confidence
- Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsFirst edition · Wellcome Collection · Custom recorded in an 1884 folklore compilation · European plant folklore · Book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics · Chapter St. John's Plants · Page 52
Modern Convention
waning-period banishing convention
Waning Gibbous inherits a non-default waning-period convention. The sources discuss the waning interval rather than asserting a unique meaning for this individual phase.
2 attestations · medium confidence
- Patti Wigington, Moon Phases and Magical WorkingsLearn Religions reference page, updated January 1, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section Waning Moon
- Amy Herring, The Eight Phases of the MoonLlewellyn Journal article excerpted from Llewellyn's Moon Sign Datebook · Llewellyn Worldwide · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section The phases of the Moon
Modern Convention
waning-period banishing convention
Last Quarter inherits a non-default waning-period convention. The sources discuss the waning interval rather than asserting a unique meaning for this individual phase.
2 attestations · medium confidence
- Patti Wigington, Moon Phases and Magical WorkingsLearn Religions reference page, updated January 1, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section Waning Moon
- Amy Herring, The Eight Phases of the MoonLlewellyn Journal article excerpted from Llewellyn's Moon Sign Datebook · Llewellyn Worldwide · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section The phases of the Moon
Modern Convention
waning-period banishing convention
Waning Crescent inherits a non-default waning-period convention. The sources discuss the waning interval rather than asserting a unique meaning for this individual phase.
2 attestations · medium confidence
- Patti Wigington, Moon Phases and Magical WorkingsLearn Religions reference page, updated January 1, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section Waning Moon
- Amy Herring, The Eight Phases of the MoonLlewellyn Journal article excerpted from Llewellyn's Moon Sign Datebook · Llewellyn Worldwide · Twenty-first-century Pagan and witchcraft convention · English-language modern Pagan practice · Section The phases of the Moon
Reviewed sources
- Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics (1884)First edition · Wellcome Collection
- Patti Wigington, Moon Phases and Magical Workings (2019)Learn Religions reference page, updated January 1, 2019 · Dotdash Meredith
- Amy Herring, The Eight Phases of the Moon (2024)Llewellyn Journal article excerpted from Llewellyn's Moon Sign Datebook · Llewellyn Worldwide