Object that is typically worn on one's person, and is alleged to have the magical power to protect its holder

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M0016851: Contents of a breverl showing the emblems of various saints

A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.

M0016769: Spanish amulets: cross of Caravaca

M0016777: Spanish compound amulets

M0016755: Spanish amulets shaped as open hands, fragments of glazed pottery (Andalusian), copper and blue enamel pendant, white metal pendant with Arabic inscription and a badger's hand

M0016858: Zahnfeige mounted as a pendant / M0016859: Wehen Kreuz double cross / M0016860: Heart shaped pendant / M0016861: Aetites for promoting childbirth / M0016862: Rock crystal mounted as pendant / M0016863: Two Krebsaugen

M0019363EB: Amulet for warding off the evils of war and sickness, Southern Nigeria

M0016751: De Osma family hierlooms: badger's paw, coral & enamelled gold bell, 17th century

M0016759: Glass amulets and beads, Spanish

M0017989: Stone amuletic object in the form of a group of animals, Bolivia

A postcard wishing good luck illustrated by various lucky charms. Chromolithograph.

M0015897: Amulet or charm case containing a crystal, south east European, possibly Austrian

Amulets and magic bowls : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.

Islamic talismanic tradition in nineteenth-century Asante / David Owusu-Ansah.

M0019735: Three amulet cases containing written love charms attached to a twisted leather thong, Sudan

Two Yorkshire charms or amulets : exorcisms and adhurations / by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth.

The Evil Eye (ayin hara-ah) / by Harry Friedenwald.

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Amulets

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Images about Amulets

Works from the collections

Amulets and magic bowls : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.

Islamic talismanic tradition in nineteenth-century Asante / David Owusu-Ansah.

M0019735: Three amulet cases containing written love charms attached to a twisted leather thong, Sudan

Two Yorkshire charms or amulets : exorcisms and adhurations / by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth.

The Evil Eye (ayin hara-ah) / by Harry Friedenwald.

Amulets

Images from the collections

Images about Amulets

Works from the collections

Amulets and magic bowls : Aramaic incantations of late antiquity / by Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked.

Islamic talismanic tradition in nineteenth-century Asante / David Owusu-Ansah.

M0019735: Three amulet cases containing written love charms attached to a twisted leather thong, Sudan

Two Yorkshire charms or amulets : exorcisms and adhurations / by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth.

The Evil Eye (ayin hara-ah) / by Harry Friedenwald.

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