European folk apotropaic craft — Amulet Atlas Protective objects made and kept by European households outside the church's list: iron over a door, a bottle in a hearth, a shoe in a wall, rowan bound with red thread, a cross of rushes in the rafters, a bead against… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/european-folk-apotropaic/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 50K
fetish — Amulet Atlas A European word, applied from outside, to objects Europeans met on the West African coast and could not file. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/fetish-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
Tupilaq — Amulet Atlas Two different things share this name, and a reader should hold them apart. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/tupilaq/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
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
Akua'ba — Amulet Atlas A small wooden figure with a large flat disc for a head, a ringed neck and a short body, usually with arms out to the sides. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/akuaba-figure/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 31K
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
Where it goes — Amulet Atlas On a body, on a house, in a vehicle, on a boat, in a grave. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/wear/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 76K
phylactery — Amulet Atlas Three words wearing one spelling, and a reader has to know which is meant. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/word/phylactery-word/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Traditions — Amulet Atlas The whole practice a charm belongs to, and who is entitled to make one. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/traditions/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 31K
West African charm craft — Amulet Atlas Not one practice but a shelf of them, made by different specialists for different clients across Benin, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Niger and Cameroon: written Qur'anic charms sewn into cloth sacks; assembled… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/west-african-charm-craft/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
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