CAULDRON

A 'cauldron' or 'caldron' (from Latin ''caldarium'', hot bath) is a large metal pot (kettle) for cooking and/or boiling over an open fire, with a large mouth and usually attached to a hanger with the shape of an arc.
Cauldrons have fallen out of use nowadays in the industrialized world as cooking vessels. They have solely become associated with witchcraft, as a ''cliché'' popularized by various fictions, including the play Macbeth: in fantastic fiction, witches often prepare their potions in a cauldron. Also, in legend, a cauldron is purported to be where leprechauns keep their treasure.
Celtic legend tells of a cauldron that was useful to warring armies: dead warriors could be put into the cauldron and would be returned to life, save that they lacked the power of speech. (It was suspected that they lacked souls, like golem. These warriors could go back into battle until they were killed again.
In Wicca witchcraft a cauldron is often placed at the centre of a sacred circle and used to contain items that will be set alight during a ritual.

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Cauldrons are often mentioned in the illustrated comics ''Asterix and Obelix''; their magic potion is prepared in a cauldron in every comic of the series. Cauldrons are also mentioned the in Archie Comics series ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'', where Sabrina's aunts concoct potions in one.

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★ Gundestrup cauldron

★ Kama (Japanese tea ceremony)

★ Cauldron (computer game)

★ Cauldron (book) A novel centering on the story of a European financial crisis that leads to a military confrontation between the United States and France.

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★ Holy Grail

★ A cauldron in a circle