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
Renewing yearly — Amulet Atlas A charm with an expiry date. The old one is taken down, returned, burnt, buried or tied to a tree, and a new one takes its place on a fixed day. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/renewing-yearly/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
Iron — Amulet Atlas The commonest useful metal and the one that rusts. Because it corrodes so readily, ancient iron objects are far rarer in the ground than gold or silver ones — the survival order of the metals runs opposite to how common… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/iron/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Brigid's cross — Amulet Atlas A small cross woven from straw or rushes, defined by its material rather than its shape. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/brigids-cross/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 38K
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
Horseshoe — Amulet Atlas A U of iron, drilled with nail holes, that spent its first life nailed to a hoof. As a charm it is the used one: worn thin at the toe, still carrying nail stubs, fixed over a doorway. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/horseshoe/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
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
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
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
Bulla — Amulet Atlas A locket on a neckchain: a round hollow pouch with something shut inside it, usually a phallus. What it was made of tracked the family's money — gold or gold foil at the top, lead, leather or cloth further down. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/bulla/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K
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