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
Nkisi — Amulet Atlas A container with a spirit in it. The container can be a ceramic vessel, a gourd, an animal horn, a shell, a cloth bundle — anything that will hold spiritually charged substances — and it can also be a carved wooden… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/nkisi/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 47K
Budge's amulet plates — Amulet Atlas Twenty-two plates and three hundred in-text illustrations bound into a 543-page book: E. A. Wallis Budge's "Amulets and superstitions", published in London and New York by Oxford University Press and H. Milford in 1930. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/budge-plates/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Mercado de Brujas de Gamarra — Amulet Atlas A row of esoteric stalls inside the Gamarra clothing district of La Victoria, Lima, along Avenida Aviación. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/mercado-de-las-brujas-lima/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
The Marrakesh souk — Amulet Atlas The market streets of the Marrakesh medina, running north from the square called Jemaa el-Fnaa into the old city. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/marrakesh-souk/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
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
Cornicello — Amulet Atlas A single twisted horn, a few centimetres long, tapering to a point and pierced at the wide end for a chain. Gold, silver, plastic, bone, terracotta or red coral. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/cornicello/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Kamea — Amulet Atlas A written amulet: a small sheet of parchment, paper or thin metal, inscribed in Hebrew with divine and angelic names, sometimes laid out as a grid of letters or numbers, then folded or rolled and carried, hung at a bed… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/kamea/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
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
Daruma — Amulet Atlas A hollow papier-mâché figure, round, weighted at the base so it rights itself when knocked over, usually red, with a bearded scowling face and two oversized white eyes left blank. Sold with no pupils. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/daruma/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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