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Concept

Charm

Images

  • Machabei cross, protective cross. Both sides shown (Hebrew characters).
  • Suppenbrunnzer, dove of the Holy Spirit.
  • Fraiskette with 3 cases of charms
  • Mandrake amulet of today.
  • Pilgrim's token, a blue bottle showing a little chapel. Formerly contained St. Wolfgang's water. The bottle was covered with water-paint in order to show the design, when the lantern slide was made.
  • Necklet of the vertebrae of an adder hung with 3 medallions.
  • Walpurgis oil, amulet.
  • House at Mascli, where amulet was obtained
  • Holy wheel or Carillon, 'The Rose of fortune'.
  • Zachariah's cross. A double cross, on one side side Zacharias and his blessing, on the other St. Benedict and the lettering of the cross of St. Benedict. Protection against the plague.
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Catalogue

    • 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

    Pilgrim's token, a blue bottle showing a little chapel. Formerly contained St. Wolfgang's water. The bottle was covered with water-paint in order to show the design, when the lantern slide was made.

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Copy of a 'wunder brief' said to be written by God.

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Necklet of the vertebrae of an adder hung with 3 medallions.

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: one patient has his leg dressed, another gets injected and two nurses roll a bandage. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

    Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965. | Date: 1916 | Reference: 24106i
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