Who owns a charm — Amulet Atlas A museum drawer of amulets is the hardest kind of collection to hand back and the easiest kind to have taken. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/who-owns-a-charm/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 54K
Omikuji — Amulet Atlas A narrow strip of printed paper drawn at random from a box at a shrine or temple, for a small offering. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/omikuji/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
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
Foundation deposit — Amulet Atlas Objects buried under a building, at the start of it, by people who did not expect anyone to see them again. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/foundation-deposit/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
Rowan cross — Amulet Atlas Two rowan twigs laid across each other and bound at the crossing with red thread or wool, a few inches across. A variant is a loop rather than a cross: a single withy bent round and tied. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/rowan-cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Phone charm — Amulet Atlas A small figure, bead, tassel or brocade pouch on a thin cord, knotted with a lark's head through a hole in a phone or a case. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/phone-charm/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 37K
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
Dzi bead — Amulet Atlas A tube of agate, brown to black, carrying pale ivory-white patterns that were etched into the stone rather than cut: circles, ovals, squares, waves, zigzags, stripes, lines, diamonds, dots. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/dzi-bead/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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
Where we stop — Amulet Atlas Amulets, charms and talismans worldwide — what they are made of, where on the body or the house they go, what their carriers say they stop, and when and where each one is documented. Every hemisphere, from the Neolithic to a sticker on a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/coverage/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 26K
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