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Charms

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Witchcraft
Demonology
Superstitions
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Images from the collections

Images about Charms

59 images from works
  • 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.
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • St. Benedict's penny. On one side a representation of the Saint.
  • Medical talisman, to ward off plague (Chinese C19 woodcut)
  • Eleven scenes of witchcraft. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick
  • A postcard wishing good luck illustrated by various lucky charms. Chromolithograph.
  • Medical talisman for menstrual problems (Chinese MS)
  • Medical talisman against miscarriage (Chinese MS)
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
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Works from the collections

151 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0005082: Carillon, or "wheel of fortune"

    | Date: 28 November 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/41/35
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Nail figure used to fix oaths and heal the sick

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Compass encased within a shell, good luck charm

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    A selection of good luck charms used by soldiers

    • Books

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

    | Christopher Wordsworth | Date: [1903]
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Related topics

Formulas, recipes, etc.
Medicine, Traditional
Talismans
Magic
Amulets
Superstitions
Poetry
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
TCM
Veterinary Medicine

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