Hirz — Amulet Atlas A small case on a chain, rectangular or cylindrical, holding verses of the Qur'an written on paper inside. Usually silver. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/hirz-pouch/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Feeding the charm — Amulet Atlas Giving the object something to consume. Liquor poured on a cloth bag, a lit cigarette in a plaster figure's mouth, rice and salt and water set out in front of a paper talisman, a nail driven into a carved figure… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/feeding-the-charm/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Agadez cross — Amulet Atlas A cast pendant, usually silver, with a ring or loop at the top and a flared, spreading body below — sometimes a cross, more often a shape between a cross and a shield. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tuareg-cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 34K
Silver — Amulet Atlas A soft, white, very reflective metal that occurs native and is mostly recovered as a by-product of lead-zinc, copper and gold mining. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/silver/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Corn dolly — Amulet Atlas A hollow shape plaited from the last sheaf of a harvest: a figure, a knot, a lantern, a crown, a fan, a horseshoe. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/corn-dolly/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
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
The cross — Amulet Atlas Two lines crossing, usually at right angles. The variations are named and they matter: the †-shaped crux immissa, the T-shaped crux commissa or tau, the X-shaped crux decussata or saltire, the crux ansata with a loop on… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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
Four-leaf clover — Amulet Atlas A clover leaf with four leaflets instead of three, usually white clover, Trifolium repens. It is a mutation, not a species. Found ones are pressed flat in a book or sealed in plastic; grown ones are sold the same way. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/four-leaf-clover/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
The tooth and the claw — Amulet Atlas A tooth, a tusk or a claw, pierced or mounted and hung. Sometimes the animal part is left as it came off the animal; sometimes it is carved past recognition. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/sign/tooth-and-claw/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
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