Bakongo nkisi craft — Amulet Atlas The practice, among the Bakongo of the Congo Basin and the Songye of Kasai, of assembling containers that a spirit inhabits. The maker is an nganga: a healer, diviner and mediator. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/bakongo-nkisi-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
Alan Dundes — Amulet Atlas American folklorist, 1934–2005, who taught at the University of California, Berkeley for forty-two years. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/alan-dundes/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Egyptian amulet craft — Amulet Atlas The practice of making, wearing and burying small protective objects in ancient Egypt: shapes cut from stone or moulded in faience — quartz paste glazed blue or green in a kiln — pierced and strung, worn in life and… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/egyptian-amulet-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
Sewing in — Amulet Atlas Putting the charm inside the cloth rather than on a cord. A pouch is stitched shut over what it holds; coins and hair are sewn into a belt; a charm is quilted into a bedcover; a shirt is itself the charm, worn under… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/sewing-in/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Hei matau — Amulet Atlas A heavily stylised fish hook, carved in bone or pounamu — the Māori term for the hard green stones, chiefly nephrite jade, found only in the South Island — and worn at the neck on a cord. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/hei-matau/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Inuit amulet — Amulet Atlas Small worked or unworked pieces of animal and bird — bone, claw, tooth, skin, feather — sewn to clothing or carried, one amulet to one spirit. There is no single form. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/inuit-amulet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Tooth, tusk and claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth worn as a charm is the one material that arrives already shaped, already pointed, and already the property of something that could bite. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/tooth/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
mojo — Amulet Atlas In Hoodoo, the African American spiritual tradition, mojo is both the conjure work and the bag that holds it — Wikipedia's article calls a mojo bag a prayer in a bag, a spell that can be carried on the body. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/mojo-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Shaul Shaked — Amulet Atlas Israeli Iranist and philologist, 1933–2021, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/shaul-shaked/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Figa — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved small and drilled for a cord. In Asturias it is cut from jet; elsewhere from coral, silver, gold, bone or moulded resin. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/figa/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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