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
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
Rabbit's foot — Amulet Atlas A rabbit's hind foot, dried, carried in a pocket. Grander ones are capped in metal and hung from a chain; Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography that the boxer John L. Sullivan gave him a gold-mounted one. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/rabbits-foot/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Milagro — Amulet Atlas A small flat metal shape of the thing you are praying about — a leg, an eye, a heart, a lung, a kneeling man, a cow, a house, a car. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/milagro/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Practices — Amulet Atlas Making, charging, wearing, feeding, retiring. A charm is a verb before it is a noun. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practices/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
apotropaic — Amulet Atlas The scholar's adjective, and nobody's own. No wearer calls a bead apotropaic. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/apotropaic-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Salt — Amulet Atlas Sodium chloride, got by evaporating seawater in ponds, by mining rock salt, or from mineral springs. It preserves, it purifies, and it dissolves. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/salt/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
Words — Amulet Atlas Amulet, talisman, charm, ta'wiz, omamori, nazar — and what each one actually says. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/words/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 30K
Ink — Amulet Atlas Pigment suspended in a liquid: charcoal and water in West Africa, sometimes with saffron added, and driven under the skin elsewhere. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/ink/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 39K
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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