Original sentence: In the poem the five lines of the star are given multiple meanings: they represent the five senses, five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, the five joys that Mary had of Jesus (the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension and the Assumption), and the five virtues of knighthood which Gawain hopes to embody: noble generosity, fellowship, purity, courtesy and compassion.It appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th Century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Medieval Christians believed it to symbolise the five wounds of Christ.Probably due to misinterpretation of symbols used by ceremonial magicians, it later became associated with Satanism and subsequently rejected by most of Christianity sometime in the twentieth century.The pentagram figured in the heavily symbolic Arthurian romances.The pentagram was believed to protect against witches and demons.The pentagram was used as a Christian symbol for the five senses, and if the letters S, A, L, V, and S are inscribed in the points, it can be taken to mean a symbol of health (from Latin salus)