The tooth and the claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth, a tusk or a claw, pierced or mounted and hung. Sometimes the animal part is left as it came off the animal; sometimes it is carved past recognition. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/tooth-and-claw/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Dating a charm — Amulet Atlas The timeline on this site is drawn from one field. Every record may carry a `dating` block with a start year, an end year, a flag saying whether people still carry the thing, and a word saying how the date is known. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/dating-a-charm/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 39K
Bulla — Amulet Atlas A locket on a neckchain: a round hollow pouch with something shut inside it, usually a phallus. What it was made of tracked the family's money — gold or gold foil at the top, lead, leather or cloth further down. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bulla/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Tibetan protection craft — Amulet Atlas The protective end of Tibetan Buddhism: printed and drawn amulets consecrated by lamas, folded and bound in five-coloured cord, carried in worked-metal boxes at the neck or over the chest, hung on strings across passes… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/tibetan-protection/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
Turquoise — Amulet Atlas A hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, opaque, sky-blue where copper dominates and green where iron replaces it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/turquoise/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Jade — Amulet Atlas Two different rocks under one word. Nephrite is a felted mass of calcium-magnesium amphibole, slightly softer but very tough; jadeite is a sodium-aluminium pyroxene, harder, rarer, documented from fewer than a dozen… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/jade/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Tattooing — Amulet Atlas The charm put into the skin, where it cannot be dropped, stolen, sold or taken off. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/tattooing/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Washing off the ink — Amulet Atlas The charm written and then destroyed on purpose, so that a person can take it. Words are written inside a bowl, water is poured in, the writing comes off into the water, and the water is drunk. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/washing-off-ink/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Incantation bowl — Amulet Atlas A plain earthenware bowl with writing inside it. The text is inked in a spiral that starts at the rim and winds inward to the centre, most often in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, sometimes Mandaic, Syriac, Arabic or… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/incantation-bowl/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
St Christopher medal — Amulet Atlas A stamped metal disc, 15 to 30 mm across, showing a bearded giant wading a river with a staff in one hand and a child on his shoulder. Aluminium, tin, brass, silver and gold all get struck. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/st-christopher-medal/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 42K
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