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
The cross — Amulet Atlas Two lines crossing, usually at right angles. The variations are named and they matter: the †-shaped crux immissa, the T-shaped crux commissa or tau, the X-shaped crux decussata or saltire, the crux ansata with a loop on… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Curse tablet — Amulet Atlas A very thin sheet of lead with tiny letters scratched into it, then rolled, folded, or pierced through with a nail. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/curse-tablet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Hagstone — Amulet Atlas A stone with a hole worn right through it by water, usually flint, usually glassy. Nobody makes one: a hagstone is found, on a beach or in a field, and a stone holed by human hand does not count. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/hagstone/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Azabache — Amulet Atlas A piece of jet — fossil wood, black, warm to the touch, light in the hand — cut either as a small clenched fist with the thumb pushed between the first two fingers, or as a faceted black bead. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/azabache/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
The tree — Amulet Atlas A tree standing where it stands. This is the one sign in the atlas that is often not drawn at all: the mark is the tree, and what a reader would notice is not a carving but the things tied to it, planted beside it, or… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/tree/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
Agnus Dei — Amulet Atlas A disc of wax, round or oval, with a lamb pressed into one face. The lamb carries a cross or a flag; the reverse usually takes a saint, or the name and arms of the reigning pope. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/agnus-dei/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
People — Amulet Atlas Makers, monks, excavators, collectors, the scholars who wrote the catalogues. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/people/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 27K
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
West African charm craft — Amulet Atlas Not one practice but a shelf of them, made by different specialists for different clients across Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Cameroon: written Qur'anic charms sewn into cloth sacks; assembled… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/west-african-charm-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
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