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

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

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

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

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

Sobre amuletos de los Pascuenses / Marcelo Bórmida.

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

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

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

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

Sobre amuletos de los Pascuenses / Marcelo Bórmida.