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
Walter Leo Hildburgh — Amulet Atlas American collector and art historian, 1876–1955, who bought amulets in vast numbers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East and then wrote about them. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/walter-hildburgh/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
luck — Amulet Atlas The word the whole 'good luck charm' category hangs on in English, and a late arrival that came in through a card game. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/luck-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Sewing in — Amulet Atlas Putting the charm inside the cloth rather than on a cord. A pouch is stitched shut over what it holds; coins and hair are sewn into a belt; a charm is quilted into a bedcover; a shirt is itself the charm, worn under… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/sewing-in/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Bujeok — Amulet Atlas A paper talisman drawn by a mudang, the ritual specialist of Korean vernacular religion. The figures on it are built out of Hanja, the Korean forms of Chinese logograms, worked into shapes that are not ordinary writing. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bujeok/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Hanging at the door — Amulet Atlas Putting the charm on the way in. A parchment case screwed to a doorpost, a horseshoe nailed above a door, a woven cross in the rafters, a painted star on a barn, a paper talisman pasted at an entrance. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/hanging-at-door/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 43K
Daruma — Amulet Atlas A hollow papier-mâché figure, round, weighted at the base so it rights itself when knocked over, usually red, with a bearded scowling face and two oversized white eyes left blank. Sold with no pupils. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/daruma/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
The charm goes digital — Amulet Atlas A charm you cannot hold raises every question this atlas asks of a bead, and a few the bead never had to answer. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-charm-goes-digital/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
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