Burning at retirement — Amulet Atlas Ending a charm in fire, on purpose and in public. Old talismans go back to the place that issued them and are burnt together at a set ceremony; wish-plaques are burnt to release the wish; worn prayer flags are burnt… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/burning-retirement/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
luck — Amulet Atlas The word the whole 'good luck charm' category hangs on in English, and a late arrival that came in through a card game. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/luck-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Illa practice — Amulet Atlas A practice of making the small thing stand for the large one. Its oldest form is the illa: a carved stone llama or alpaca, palm-sized, with a cylindrical hole sunk into the back between the shoulders — a container, fed… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/andean-illa-practice/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
Insa-dong — Amulet Atlas A neighbourhood of Jongno District, Seoul, 12.7 hectares of galleries, antique shops, paper and brush shops and tea houses along Insadong-gil and the alleys off it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/insadong/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 44K
St Christopher medal — Amulet Atlas A stamped metal disc, 15 to 30 mm across, showing a bearded giant wading a river with a staff in one hand and a child on his shoulder. Aluminium, tin, brass, silver and gold all get struck. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/st-christopher-medal/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 42K
The spiral — Amulet Atlas A line that winds in on itself. It is cut into stone, painted on pottery, blazoned on a shield, and — once, and importantly — used as the direction in which to write, so that the words themselves coil inward. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/spiral/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 34K
juju — Amulet Atlas In central West Africa — Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Ghana — juju names a body of practice and the objects and spells inside it. In looser English it means magical properties dealing with luck, good or bad. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/juju-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Rudraksha — Amulet Atlas A hard brown seed-stone, ridged from top to bottom, drilled and strung at the throat. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/rudraksha/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Talismanic shirt — Amulet Atlas A shirt covered in writing. Verses from the Qur'an, the names of God, the names of prophets, or numbers, laid across the cloth in blocks and grids and roundels, sometimes with astrological images or magic squares among… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/talismanic-shirt/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
apotropaic — Amulet Atlas The scholar's adjective, and nobody's own. No wearer calls a bead apotropaic. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/apotropaic-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
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