The phallus — Amulet Atlas An erect phallus, modelled in bronze, bone or wood and worn, hung or fixed. Roman versions are frequently winged, and turn up as pendants, finger rings, relief carvings, lamps and wind chimes. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/phallic-sign/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Senninbari — Amulet Atlas A strip of cloth, usually white, about 15 centimetres wide and 90 to 120 centimetres or more long, carrying a thousand stitches or knots — commonly red, because white and red together were held to be auspicious. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/senninbari/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Jet — Amulet Atlas Fossil wood. Jet is lignite, the lowest rank of coal, formed from wood under pressure — commonly from trees of the family Araucariaceae — and it is a mineraloid, not a mineral. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/jet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Buying one in a market — Amulet Atlas Money changes hands and an object becomes yours. It is the ordinary route to a charm almost everywhere — a tray in a lane, a counter inside a temple gate, an aisle at the back of a municipal market, a stall in a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/buying-in-a-market/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 46K
What it stops — Amulet Atlas Every claim about what a charm does, attributed to whoever made it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/against/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 645K
Most of them are for children — Amulet Atlas Somewhere in every general account of amulets sits a sentence saying that the largest single class of them, anywhere in the world, is protection for infants: the cradle charm, the jet fist pinned inside a Puerto Rican… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/most-of-them-are-for-children/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
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
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
Catholic sacramentals — Amulet Atlas The class of blessed objects and rites the Catholic Church puts around the sacraments: holy water, blessed candles given out at Candlemas, blessed palms, blessed ashes, blessed salt, a crucifix, a cross necklace, a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/catholic-sacramentals/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
phylactery — Amulet Atlas Three words wearing one spelling, and a reader has to know which is meant. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/phylactery-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
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