Ordinary pilgrims from all points of the compass purchase religious amulets and books. |
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The March 1 ritual is connected to the legends of the aura of amulets used as protection from evil eyes. |
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She shoved past a merchant selling amulets to ward against evil entities and demonic sprites. |
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Wrestlers wore amulets to ward off evil spirits and black magic from their opponents. |
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Infants and small children often wear amulets and bracelets to protect them from supernatural forces. |
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Various Buddhist protection beads and amulets hang from the rearview mirror. |
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Cat figures also appeared on jewelry and amulets worn for the same purpose. |
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She took off an array of necklaces, charms, and amulets from her neck and began to rummage through them. |
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The author reveals the encoded semantics of images depicted on amulets, drawings, potter's stamps, and toreutics. |
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He was wearing the ceremonial cape covered with silver jewels and other amulets. |
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His skills as a rainmaker and the effectiveness of his amulets in protecting the emperors assured his livelihood in the capital. |
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Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been found in virtually all civilizations throughout recorded history. |
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The shop Goya on Calle Jimenez sells toad talismans, owl feathers, stone amulets, candles, gems, and soaps. |
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Tattooed crosses, icons and parts of the Sacred Land are all talismans and amulets which are treasured with respect. |
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There exist a myriad of spells, amulets, talismans and lucky charms in various cultures. |
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One medieval ritual was to place talismen and amulets hanging on the child or in the room surrounding the woman in childbirth. |
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They say they got rid of all idols and amulets and all traces of idolatry, and they focus on church only. |
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In this book he offers an innocent interpretation of his own kabbalistic amulets, deciphered by his opponents as heretical. |
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Her name and image are to be found on magical rings and amulets. |
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Includes ten Egyptian amulets, a curse tablet from the fifth dynasty and various personnel effects belonging to the Egyptologist. |
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So they collected stories as amulets, as collective unconscious, as mirrors, as an exercise in nostalgia. |
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In Asia the amulets of nephrite protect the home and bring harmony, goodness and tolerance there. |
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Although silver was sometimes alloyed with gold to form electrum, it was hardly ever used alone in the production of amulets. |
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In Portugal, heart of cornelian suspended with the neck by a cordon of velvet been part of most appreciated amulets. |
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Blended with Olibanum and Benzoin, you will get an excellent incense for the blessing of talismans, amulets and all objects of personal value. |
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In ancient antiquity, Pazuzu amulets were used to protect homes and cradles, and were often worn as talismans. |
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As Mr Shah, a bearded man rattling with amulets, enters the room, pilgrims hurl themselves at his feet. |
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The teeth and claws of animals became amulets and decorative objects placed on clothing. |
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Sanam Luang', a busy square with small stands where vendors sold snacks, amulets and healing herbs. |
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Charms and amulets sewn to the clothing were believed to protect the wearer from evil and bad luck. |
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Other religious types of necklaces are pendants known as amulets, which are figures or symbols of varying shapes and sizes, which are hung on a chain round the neck. |
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The Bedouin traditionally hang amulets on the body of adults to prevent the evil eye, devils, impure spirits and other illnesses from attacking the bearer of the amulet. |
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Take out your amulets and rabbit's foot, the spellcaster is about to cast a spell on you at the Discovery Pavilion of the Plains of Abraham. |
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Artisans in the Hongshan culture there probably used bamboo fibers to abrade stones into jewelry and animal amulets. |
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The amulets on a girl's amauti made certain that her future sons would have good fortune. |
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Cameos and intaglios were often mounted as rings, worn as amulets or brooches, and sometimes even mounted on elaborate Gospel book covers or reliquaries. |
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Within a navy blue duffel bag were clattering bone-hued beads, amulets, and bracelets. |
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Ornaments such as pendants, bead necklaces, and amulets are also known. |
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Taboos are observed, and charms and amulets are used for protection. |
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The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye. |
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They use it for the concretisation of pentacles, amulets, for also proteger or to clean on photographs. |
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It shades a chest covered with many amulets and two emarald green perrots which walks on Don Juan's shoulders, their owner. |
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He was told that individuals often wore amulets or figurines as protection against malevolent spirits. |
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A pregnant woman would sew amulets to her parka to ensure that the child would grow up to be a great hunter or seamstress. |
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Exorcism, ointments, amulets and enemas were used as treatments in ancient Babylon, for example. |
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The seven objects include small funerary statuettes or shabtis, a bronze axe head, a ceramic bowl and amulets to help the dead find their way to the afterlife. |
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Thai amulets, talismans and charms direct from Thailand. |
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When crossing rivers, some of them carried amulets that would protect them from a Kongamato. |
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In earlier times, amulets were much simpler: they could even be a shell! |
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These colored gemstones were often used as amulets and talismans, thought to be working as portals to the future or as important ingredients to many spiritual practices. |
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For protection they carried amulets of various origins and had them buried with them when they died. |
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There is a brisk trade in European iron nails, cloth, beads and crucifixes in return for American amulets, spears, parrots and monkeys. |
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Gold beads were made in the rorm of cowry shells, drums, padlocks, amulets and talismans. |
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The products teddy bears, pink-ribbon brooches, and so forth serve as amulets and talismans, comforting the sufferer and providing visible evidence of faith. |
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Then comes the turn of the salesmen of amulets and talismans, of the brewers of magic herbal potions and of the spell casters, of all trying to find a recipe to cope with the unfamiliar. |
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This type of mould with two separate shells that could be used on both sides enabled the serial production of small items of jewellery such as pendants and amulets. |
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A good example for this are several Thor's Hammers with engraved crosses, worn as amulets, that archaeologists have found in Scandinavia. |
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This is how amulets and ritual are created. |
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The exhibition includes writing boards from Sudan and Nigeria, used to study the Quran, and amulets from Sierra Leone that contain Quranic verses. |
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These rings have become protective amulets. |
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At its height, the Maglemosian industry was also a highly artistic one, decorative designs being found both on tools and on decorative objects, such as pendants and amulets of bone, horn, and amber. |
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I am thinking of etrogs turned into pomanders and pieces of afikoman hung over doors as amulets to increase one's blessing. |
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The autopsy report makes the link between the incident and the increasing demand from Asian markets for the male genitals of sea lions and seals for use in traditional medicine, as aphrodisiacs and amulets. |
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Certain hieroglyphs thus served as amulets because of their meaning: the amulet ankh, symbol of life, would assure its possessor of a happy existence. |
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As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets on her manual sewing machine. |
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Block printing, called tarsh in Arabic, developed in Arabic Egypt during the ninth and tenth centuries, mostly for prayers and amulets. |
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The most common of these amulets was the agnus dei, a small wax cake, originally made out of paschal candles and blessed by the Pope, bearing the image of the lamb and flag. |
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Traditional medicine incorporates diverse remedies and practices such as the use of herbs, amulets, guinea pigs, and incantations to eliminate disease or cleanse the body. |
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It is a very Magickal tree used for dowsing rods, amulets and spells. |
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