Ethiopian scroll craft — Amulet Atlas The making of painted parchment scrolls by dabtaras — unordained clerics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church — for named people, cut to their height, written in Ge'ez, and read aloud to them by someone who can read it. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/ethiopian-scroll-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Talismanic shirt — Amulet Atlas A shirt covered in writing. Verses from the Qur'an, the names of God, the names of prophets, or numbers, laid across the cloth in blocks and grids and roundels, sometimes with astrological images or magic squares among… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/talismanic-shirt/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
nazar — Amulet Atlas A word for a glance that has ended up as the name of a glass disc. Naẓar in Arabic is sight, surveillance, attention. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/nazar-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
The swastika problem — Amulet Atlas One shape carries two meanings that cannot be blended and must not be confused. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/the-swastika-problem/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 43K
Car saint — Amulet Atlas A stamped metal medal clipped to a sun visor or glued to a dashboard, or a miniature statue standing on it, showing a giant wading a river with a child on his shoulder. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/car-saint/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Tooth, tusk and claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth worn as a charm is the one material that arrives already shaped, already pointed, and already the property of something that could bite. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/tooth/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
The Lovett charms at Wellcome Collection — Amulet Atlas An address rather than a room. Walk into 183 Euston Road today and there is no case of Edward Lovett's London charms to look at: the permanent show of Henry Wellcome's own collecting, Medicine Man, closed for good on 27… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/place/wellcome-lovett/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 49K
taweez — Amulet Atlas The word across the Muslim world for a worn written charm and, by extension, for the object it is folded into: a pendant, letters carved on metal, a framed prayer. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/taweez-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Free to use — Amulet Atlas This is the licence explained to the person who wants to take something. The records and the pages built from them are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The code that builds them is MIT. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/story/free-to-use/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 40K
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