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Amulets

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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Images of Amulets

15 images from works
  • [Wellcome MS. Batak 331834].
  • The Holy Cross with Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch and Saint John Nepomuk, serving as an amulet against plagues, witchcraft etc. Coloured woodcut.
  • Vipern Schnürre : die von Hyeronimus Mantovani, Apotheker zum Welterlösers-Schilde in der sogenannten Calle larga S. Marco in Venedig auf eine ganz besondere Art zubereitet werden / Girolamo Mantovani.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • The Holy Cross, surrounded by Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, and Saint John Nepomuk, and (above) the appearance of the Trinity; serving as an amulet against plagues, witchcraft etc. Coloured etching.
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Images about Amulets

71 images from works
  • 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
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Charms
Superstitions
Amulets and Charms
Talismans
Magic
Ancient
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Egypt
London
History, 19th Century