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Thanks sionnach, right on the ball as usual you old fox. I'm looking for more words from non-Christian religions just to balance the scale so come on all you voodoo warriors, speak up! This list is focussed on objects with ceremonial roles rather than clothing of religious personages, which perhaps deserves ... another list? :->

thurible? aspergillum?

Really? I always loved the sound of "crucifix," for some reason.

I always thought crucifix was a scary word. (I guess it's supposed to be, though.) This list rocks. Its awesomeness can scarcely be contained by its abbreviated length.

Congrats, bilby. And speaking of hideously fascinating things, how about reliquary?

I like monstrance too, hideously fascinating! Found the word I was looking for: turba.

Rolig, that's a great description of that word: scary/funny. :-)

as someone raised as a kind of hybrid Presbyterian Quaker, with the Quaker part eventually dominating, I don't know much about religious paraphernalia, but one word that I have always found surprising and a little scary/funny is monstrance. I have no idea what your Muslim friend's stone would be called, but I am delighted you want to know.

I knew a girl who was a Shia Muslim and she had this kind of stone. The idea was to hold it in the hand, and during the prostration bit of the prayer to plop it in front so the forehead touched the stone and not the ground. I would love to know that those things are called.

This list is a neglected member of my flock. Churches and I don't breathe in each other's faces that often.

Misanthropic me! Here I was, expecting to find words like hurricane, flood, pestilence, drought . . .