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Silver is always nice for Goddess tools - a silver chalice is a perfect Wiccan chalice...

The Wiccan chalice is used for ceremonial drink, offering libations to the Divine...

Libation Dish
A small dish, bowl, or cup can go in the centre, ready to receive offerings for the gods and goddesses.
You can also use your altar chalice or cauldron for this purpose...

Offerings
When you would honour the Divine with a gift of thanks or prayer, you can bring them to the Altar
as an offering. Often flowers are kept on the altar as an offering. Anything that is beautiful or special
to you, or symbolic of the purpose for the offering, can be offered.

Scent or Feather
Some representation of air, commonly something scented like incense, essential oils, or smudges, or
else a flying bird's feather goes in the East, to represent Air. Sacred scents are used to cleanse an
area energetically, call in certain powers, or help witches shift consciousness.
[Source: http://www.wicca-spirituality.com/altar-tools.html]

The image above of a Jewish Sabbath table could easily be that of a Wiccan altar. The chalice, the
candles, the flowers are all present. At the close of the Sabbath the Jews conduct what is called a
Havdalah ritual. Part of this ritual includes a small libation dish containing spice. It is explained that
this ritual is to involve all five senses of the human body, but once again we find that the presence
of scent/spice on the altar/table perfectly aligns with the practice of witchcraft. During the Havdalah
rite the Jews pour any leftover wine which is in the kiddush cup into a small dish as they hold their
hands up extended toward the flame of the candle. Many do not know they are reenacting the pouring
out of a libation to the Queen of Heaven.

Havdalah Elements

As the article on Shabbat Hamalka stated, the goddess is associated with sex and fertility. The rabbis
admonished men to perform their sexual duty to their wives at midnight on the Sabbath, an hour that
is sacred to witches and Satanists. One dominant form of Satanism is called Sex Magick. The act of
sexual intercourse is believed to raise the spiritual powers of the practitioners and invite the spirits
being conjured to manifest more powerfully. Thus we see that the entire Sabbath becomes one