With the amulets and these conception-billets belong also in the armory of the Church, the wonder-working relics, and images of the saints.
Along with the amulets the so-called conception-billets, which the Carmelite monks sell for a small sum, are of manifold use.
To them belong amulets inscribed with the names of seraphs, cherubs and thrones, and with sentences from the Bible and the sacred books of Zoroaster.
Charms are sung or muttered over them, and they are given by parents to their children while they are still quite little; or young people are instructed by their elders how to find amulets for themselves.
When, for example, amulets and fetishes are supposed to possess supernatural power, they are not only treasured, but worshipped.
The transition from this belief in amulets to fetish-worship, or rather idol- and image-worship, does not seem to me to be very difficult.
The Eskimos often have for amulets portions of their forefathers' clothes or other possessions, as a rule of their grandfathers'.
The worshipper keeps these amulets and mixed medicines hanging on the wall of his room or hidden in one of his boxes.
Some of the older objects in this series perhaps also served the purpose of amuletsor charms,[N514] but a number of the new ones were made simply as works of fancy for sale to us.
Among the sedentary Chukches of Siberia amulets were seen consisting of wooden forks and wood or ivory carvings.
Like the amulets of the Greenlanders, they appear to be[N625] "certain animals or things which had belonged to or been in contact with certain persons (e.
We collected a number of these animal amulets to be worn on the person, but only succeeded in learning the special purpose of one of them, No.
Pieces of amber are sometimes found on the beach and are carried as amulets or (rarely) made into beads.
A whaling umiak always carries a number of amulets to insure success.
The amulets or charms which the Roman Christians wear, to drive away diseases, and to protect them from harm, are other relics of paganism.
The use of amulets was carried to the most extravagant excess in ancient Egypt, and their Sacred Book of the Dead, even in its earliest form, shows the importance attached to such things.
The Christians also used amulets with the name or monogram of the god Serapis engraved thereon, which show that it made no difference whether the god was their own or that of another.
The twenty-sixth dynasty almost dropped the Ra theory; the Osirian kingdom and its population of slave figures is the most familiar view, and the preservation of the body by amulets was essential.
The household amulets in the prehistoric days were the great serpent stones with figures of the coiled serpent; much suggesting an earlier use of large ammonites.
The funeral accompaniment of this view was the abundance of amulets placed on various parts of the body to preserve it.
He was popular down to late times, where amulets of his figure are often found.
A few amulets are found worn on a necklace or bracelet in early times; but the full development of the amulet system was in the twenty-sixth to thirtieth dynasties.
Besides several amulets and small idols, at one of the {18} corners were jars containing the skeletons of new-born infants.
As a rules these amulets consist of small booklets containing prayers composed of Latin and Spanish words mixed with words and abbreviations of the native dialects.
In a word amulets or anting-anting against everything.
They are most commonly met with in the form of amulets which their possessors carry about with them to ward off dangers of all kinds.
It was almost dark inside the carriage, but she could see a white figure, which in the dimness had neither face nor definite shape; and there was a perfume as of aromatic amulets grown warm on a human body.
Whenever she moved, the warm perfume of amulets grew stronger, overpowering the faint mustiness of the cushions and upholstery.
And they sprinkled water upon the people, dealt out to them, asamulets and charms, small relics of the dead, and the people breathed war and combat.
To be decked with suitable amulets was to him to be invested with a charmed life.
A power against charms or spells was often attributed to amulets of this kind.
The practice of interring their favorite utensils, ornaments andamulets with the dead, renders their ancient grave-yards, barrows and mounds the principal repositories of these arts.
Amulets and neck, ear and head ornaments, constituted a very ancient and very important department in the arcanum of the Indian wardrobe.
You would find there the rings and signets of the Basilidians; amulets too of wood or ivory: figures of demons, preternaturally ugly; little skeletons, and other superstitious devices.
The art of blockprinting came to Japan from China in very early times, and it is on record that, in 770, the Empress Shotoku caused a million Buddhist amulets to be printed.
A belief in amulets and charms, in revelations by dreams and in the efficacy of ordeal, belongs to this category of superstitions.
It seems probable that many amulets have been similarly regarded as soul-boxes, that is, as safes in which the souls of the owners are kept for greater security.
The ancients set great store on the magical qualities of precious stones; indeed it has been maintained, with great show of reason, that such stones were used as amulets long before they were worn as mere ornaments.
But they must still be cautious, for the wounded Sedna is furious and will seize any one she may find outside of his hut; so they all wear amulets on the top of their hoods to protect themselves against her.
How far the custom of wearing finger-rings may have been influenced by, or even have sprung from, a belief in their efficacy as amulets to keep the soul in the body, or demons out of it, is a question which seems worth considering.
On the other hand, the same constriction which hinders the egress of the soul may prevent the entrance of evil spirits; hence we find rings used asamulets against demons, witches, and ghosts.
These amulets consist of pieces of the first garments that they wore after birth.
To the same class of amulets as the votive hands must be assigned the terracotta model of a mirror, covered over with numerous objects of magical virtue (No.
The object of these amuletsseems to have been to propitiate the deities whose symbols are represented on them.
They were designed to containamulets and charms, and were worn principally by freeborn Roman boys, and occasionally by domestic animals.
Amulets sold at the festival of St Barbe at Le Faouet, 333 COX, REV.
Many kinds of amuletsor talismans were used by the Breton peasantry to neutralize the power of sorcerers.
When her child is ill she can only hang it with amulets and wail over it; the great lady of the Fazi palace is as ignorant of hygiene as the peasant-woman of the bled.
Presently a low voice croaking out, "Rings, rings--amulets and rings!
He stroked his beard, thought awhile; at last he rose, took from his bosom a purple ribbon on which were fastened three golden amulets with a portrait of the goddess Astaroth.
In the afternoon the service was most solemn, for at that time the troops marching westward came to receive the blessing of the high priest, and strengthen the power of amulets which had the quality of weakening blows from the enemy.
He drew from his girdle a knife, cut the ribbon into three parts, and gave two of these with the amulets to Dagon and Rabsun.
Thus speaking, the high priest touched with amulets the mouth, the breasts, the hands, and the feet of the mummy.
The officer covered with amulets was found as quickly as if he had been waiting for this summons a long time.
The officer covered withamulets bent to the earth.
Even soothsayers and astrologers were not lacking, who in the last hours before marching wished to draw his horoscope for the viceroy; there were even practicers of the black art who wished to sell unfailing amulets against missiles.
The natives of the coast did not employ this metal in the form of ornaments or amulets only; but also as a medium of exchange.
I have seen fine specimens of the chiastolite (macle) which the Indians wore as amulets and which came from the Sierra Nevada de Merida.
There were a few amulets in the sarcophagus, but none of any special worth or significance.
After having examined some cabinets of exquisite amulets she said to me in quite a naive way: "You will hardly believe that I have of late seldom even looked at any of these things.
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