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Amulets and Charms

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  • Amuletic stone animals to ensure fertility, Bolivia.
  • A gold memento mori pendant, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. (Closed)
  • Yoruba Ibeji figures, representing twins
  • Sioux Indian amulet in the form of a turtle, worn by girls to ward off illness. Said to contain the umbilical cord of the wearer. Decorated in beading. Northern Plains
  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone found inside the stomachs of an animal (bezoar stones) and its case. Made in India from a paste of clay, crushed shell, amber, musk and resin and used for numerous complaints such as poisons
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    Pendant or receptacle, Ancient American

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    Compass encased within a shell, good luck charm

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    A selection of good luck charms used by soldiers

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    An amuletic necklace of glass beads. The pattern of onlain circles resembling eyes acts as protection against the evil eye, Hebron, Palestine.

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    Cabbalistic amulet the safe pregnancy, 18th c.

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