Akodessawa fetish market — Amulet Atlas A supply market in the Akodessawa district of Lomé, Togo, for the materials used in Vodun practice. The stock is animal: monkey heads, skulls, dried birds, crocodiles, skins. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/akodessewa-market/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 45K
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
Bone and ivory — Amulet Atlas Two related things a charm gets cut from: bone, from any animal including a human one, and ivory, meaning tusk — from African and Asian elephants above all, and also from hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and mammoth. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/bone-ivory/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
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
The Lovett collection — Amulet Atlas Trays and cases of small, worn, mostly cheap charms picked up in London streets between the 1890s and the 1920s by Edward Lovett, and the pictures made of them since: objects laid out in rows on plain grounds, each with… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/lovett-collection/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Brown Scapular — Amulet Atlas Two small rectangles of brown wool, a few inches across, joined by two cloth bands. One rectangle sits on the chest, the bands run over the shoulders, the other rectangle hangs down the back. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/brown-scapular/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
Petrie's amulet plates — Amulet Atlas Plates of small Egyptian amulets, photographed in rows against a plain ground, printed at the back of a slim book: W. M. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/petrie-amulet-plates/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Phra khrueang — Amulet Atlas A small pressed image of the Buddha, a revered monk, a bodhisattva or a deva — a tablet a couple of centimetres across, in plaster, metal, wood or bone, often with ash, a monk's hair or temple relics in the mix. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/phra-khrueang/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
abracadabra — Amulet Atlas A word that was an object. Written out as a shrinking triangle on a piece of parchment and hung at the neck, it was a prescription — the earliest surviving instruction for it is a doctor's, for fever. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/abracadabra/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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