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
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
gris-gris — Amulet Atlas A word that names a small cloth sack worn on the person, holding Qur'anic verses written on paper and a set number of small objects. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/gris-gris-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Greek and Roman protective magic — Amulet Atlas A practice organised around one idea: harm arrives through a look, so the answer is to catch the look. The Greek word for it is apotrépō, to turn away. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/greco-roman-apotropaic/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Gold — Amulet Atlas A bright yellow metal, dense at 19.3 grams per cubic centimetre, soft, and so malleable that a single gram beats out into a sheet a metre square. It occurs native, usually in solid solution with silver. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/gold/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Lead — Amulet Atlas A soft grey metal, cheap, heavy, and soft enough to scratch with a stylus and then fold in the hand. It is also poisonous, which is the whole of its modern story. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/lead/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 35K
Gris-gris — Amulet Atlas A small cloth pouch, worn on the body, usually at the neck. Inside: verses of the Qur'an written on pieces of paper, herbs, and a set number of small objects. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/gris-gris/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Herb and root — Amulet Atlas Leaves, roots, bark, bulbs and dried fruit, used either as the charm itself or as the filling of one. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/herb/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 38K
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
Ekeko — Amulet Atlas A short, moustached man in Andean dress, above all a poncho, loaded to the shoulders with everything a household could want: bags and baskets of grain, food, pots, tools, banknotes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/ekeko/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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