Feeding the charm — Amulet Atlas Giving the object something to consume. Liquor poured on a cloth bag, a lit cigarette in a plaster figure's mouth, rice and salt and water set out in front of a paper talisman, a nail driven into a carved figure… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/feeding-the-charm/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Agadez cross — Amulet Atlas A cast pendant, usually silver, with a ring or loop at the top and a flared, spreading body below — sometimes a cross, more often a shape between a cross and a shield. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tuareg-cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Co-payment — Care Abroad A fixed sum the patient pays for a covered service while the payer pays the rest. nanobotco.github.io/care-abroad/word/co-payment/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 30K
Silver — Amulet Atlas A soft, white, very reflective metal that occurs native and is mostly recovered as a by-product of lead-zinc, copper and gold mining. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/silver/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Corn dolly — Amulet Atlas A hollow shape plaited from the last sheaf of a harvest: a figure, a knot, a lantern, a crown, a fan, a horseshoe. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/corn-dolly/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Most of them are for children — Amulet Atlas Somewhere in every general account of amulets sits a sentence saying that the largest single class of them, anywhere in the world, is protection for infants: the cradle charm, the jet fist pinned inside a Puerto Rican… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/most-of-them-are-for-children/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
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