amulets

For thousands of years, civilizations have embraced the mystical possibilities in amulets and talismans.

How Hope Travels With a Wig Jeffrey Zaslow 2010

Earlier that day, the docent had told them that the charms were called amulets.

Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

Earlier that day, the docent had told them that the charms were called amulets.

Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

For a child's protection against the supposed evil-eye it is given certain amulets, which with the lower classes consist of an onion, a piece of garlic, a bone, or a shell perhaps, fastened to the left arm in a small leather bag.

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess 1907

The amulets are a combination of elements of the forest.

Old Magic Marianne Curley 2000

The amulets are a combination of elements of the forest.

Old Magic Marianne Curley 2000

The amulets are a combination of elements of the forest.

Old Magic Marianne Curley 2000

The amulets are a combination of elements of the forest.

Old Magic Marianne Curley 2000

It has also been conjectured that some of the perforated bones and teeth of animals found in various deposits were amulets worn for religious purposes; and some have gone so far as to infer, that the ornamentations on some of these so-called amulets represent the sun, and that, consequently, sun-worship prevailed among the Cave-men.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

The flint tools, knives, scrapers and the like indicate that they thought they would hunt and slay their quarry when brought down, and fight their foes; and the schist objects found in the graves, which M. de Morgan identifies as amulets, shows that even in those early days man believed that he could protect himself against the powers of supernatural and invisible enemies by talismans.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895