Bakongo nkisi craft — Amulet Atlas The practice, among the Bakongo of the Congo Basin and the Songye of Kasai, of assembling containers that a spirit inhabits. The maker is an nganga: a healer, diviner and mediator. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/bakongo-nkisi-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 42K
Glass — Amulet Atlas Silica melted, coloured through and worked hot. Glass does two things no other material in this atlas does at once: it holds a colour all the way through a bead the size of a fingernail, and it comes out of the ground… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/glass/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
Nkisi — Amulet Atlas A container with a spirit in it. The container can be a ceramic vessel, a gourd, an animal horn, a shell, a cloth bundle — anything that will hold spiritually charged substances — and it can also be a carved wooden… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/nkisi/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 47K
Budge's amulet plates — Amulet Atlas Twenty-two plates and three hundred in-text illustrations bound into a 543-page book: E. A. Wallis Budge's "Amulets and superstitions", published in London and New York by Oxford University Press and H. Milford in 1930. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/budge-plates/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Mjölnir pendant — Amulet Atlas A small hammer worn head-down at the throat: short haft, wide splayed head, a suspension loop or ring where the handle should end. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/mjolnir-pendant/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Burying — Amulet Atlas Putting a charm in the ground and leaving it. Under a hearth, at the far corner of a property, in the threshold, in a well, in a wall. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/burying/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
charm — Amulet Atlas A word that has been three things in sequence and is still all three. A charm is a said or sung formula; a charm is a small object worn against harm or for luck; charm is what a person has who is pleasant to be near. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/charm-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Copper and bronze — Amulet Atlas Copper and its alloys: bronze with tin, brass with zinc. It casts, it takes an inscription, it corrodes to a green skin and then stops, and it was cheap enough to make a charm by the thousand in places where silver was… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/copper/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 36K
The fig fist — Amulet Atlas A closed fist with the thumb pushed up between the index and middle fingers, carved or cast small and hung at the neck. In jet it is black and matte; in coral it is red; in silver it is the size of a thumb joint. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/fist/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
juju — Amulet Atlas In central West Africa — Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Ghana — juju names a body of practice and the objects and spells inside it. In looser English it means magical properties dealing with luck, good or bad. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/juju-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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