pentacle

ouer this pott and the cyrcle hold the pentacles, and perfume them; and say deuoutly theis psalmes followynge

he drew a pentacle or five-pointed star.

The pentacle—a pentagram enclosed within a surrounding circle—as found as the centre-piece on a witch's altar is often worn as a silver pendant by witches and other neo-pagans alike repesenting their beliefs in the interconnectedness and interdependence of the powers of nature and spirit.