Works on view include amulets, tablets, outfits, armor and books.
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Most Thai combat soldiers wore numerous Buddhist amulets into battle.
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Many amulets or jewels represent the head of the leopard.
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The bones are used for medical purposes, the teeth as amulets.
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Some contained mummies, others had beads, amulets or religious statues, he said.
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For Mr. Coban, the amulets are something of a quaint cultural custom.
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Anklets, gold and silver spoons, and amulets with precious stones also are popular.
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And they happily shared their amulets with any American who asked for one.
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Others make special requests, like evil eye amulets one or two feet wide.
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There are also sickle moon symbols and amulets, which bring protection and good energy.
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The amulets now go way beyond high school backpack charms or something for Coachella.
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The sigils are then transformed into real-life design elements as amulets or even tattoos.
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Another key style element for many men is chunky gold jewelry, including crosses and amulets.
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Offerings and amulets are revealed through 3D scans, offering a tactile connection to the artifacts.
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Jewelry: Costume pieces, inexpensive metal amulets and baubles found in vending machines sometimes test positive for lead.
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Buckeyes have been used as amulets since the Native Americans were the only ones occupying this land.
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A week ago, Korać's team uncovered two amulets made of lead that were buried alongside the skeletons.
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One of the most striking amulets was a weasel testicle, tied around the neck or thigh during sex.
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Made at a cylindrical "braiding table," these bracelets, amulets, rings, and brooches were wearable mementos of the dead.
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Those included un-Islamic practices like fortunetelling and selling amulets, as well as allegations of pimping and prostitution.
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By 2010, when Mr. Kostereli took over, the store was well known for amulets, handpicked in Istanbul markets.
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The archeologists believe the objects were left behind as inhabitants of Pompeii tried to escape the volcanic eruption that destroyed the city in 79 AD. The sorcery items include crystals, amber and amethyst stones, buttons made of bones, amulets, dolls, bells, phallic amulets, fists, human figurines, and a miniature human skull.
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The graves also contained amulets, canopic jars, writing tools, papyri baskets, ropes, and over 100 small wooden animals statues.
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The show wickedly mixed contemporary art with magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spell thingies, and other knotty cultural objects.
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But many people still wear amulets to ward off evil spirits and visit faith-healers when they are sick.
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Two days after that, he held up two amulets and told reporters they would protect him from the virus.
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These protective amulets are made to be carried during perilous journeys; whether by refugees in flight or great migrations.
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Later, she checks the protective amulets she's scattered around her school, brushing off a bully with sharp-witted confidence.
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Talismans and amulets — objects believed to have magical powers — were once part of any self-respecting doctor's medicine bag.
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Chopsticks, amulets, bracelets, pendants, even a showpiece, an intricately carved dragon boat that previously cost $225,000 – everything must go.
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Some medieval Europeans relied on amulets made of herbs, dead animal bits, menstrual blood, or other random shit, sometimes literally.
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The security companies are incentivized to make it sound as scary as possible because they want you buy their magic amulets.
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They are the first such items discovered in Serbia but resemble amulets of "binding magic" found in other countries, Dankovic said.
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Some witchdoctors claim that amulets made from albino bones can cure disease or bring great wealth to those who wear them.
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And although devoutly religious monotheists condemn amulets as superstitious and therefore sinful, talismans remain extremely common in homes of every faith.
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She welcomes me as Cuban music lingers in background; the master of dark science slowly clears her space, surrounded by amulets.
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The amulets would be later be donned by other family members, like his niece Angela del Toro and sister Ava Ayala.
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Donning boxing gloves, football pads and West African amulets, Ms. Chipaumire delivers the one-two punch that characterizes much of her work.
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The amulets come in many shapes: butterflies, elephants, fish, dolphins — all adorned with the evil eye, concentric circles of blue and white.
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Traditionally, dambe boxers wore loin-cloths and sometimes clutched amulets and other charms in their hands, given to them by tribal medicine-man.
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Anti-pollution creams can top $2210 (the jury's still out on how well these work) and there are also expensive "pollution-catching" amulets.
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One of them, a long-haired young man, wore wooden amulets around his neck, which clinked together like wind chimes as he walked.
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"The security companies are incentivized to make it sound as scary as possible because they want you buy their magic amulets," Levy added.
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Vichai was a devoted Buddhist and flew orange-robed monks to Leicester for blessings and to provide spiritual amulets to help the team.
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Before knowledge overshadowed faith, talismans and amulets — objects believed to have magical powers — had their place in any self-respecting doctor's medicine bag.
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But it's crucial to note that the whole episode is a medieval fantasy parody, set in a magical world that includes amulets and "icewalkers".
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Pinned to the stars are clusters of amulets assembled from whatever Barreto finds in the streets, from shells to perfume bottles to praying beads.
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Donning boxing gloves, football pads and West African amulets, Ms. Chipaumire delivers the one-two punch that characterizes much of her work (1:253).
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The sarcophagus didn't bear any inscriptions of names, and they weren't buried with valuables like gold masks or amulets that royals would typically have.
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The wooden box full of amulets, trinkets, and gems is believed to have belonged to a Roman sorceress, according to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
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Using yards upon yards of linen, the priests would wrap the body's appendages separately, layering protective amulets and jewels within the linen as they went.
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For Buchegger, these perpetual cycles have led her to marking seasonal rhythms with amulets and apron strips, staking her claim to the sacredness of time.
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Child angels are more palatable than necromantic amulets which were once made from bits of stillborn babies and sometimes still turn up in grim emporia.
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Some athletes carry protective amulets and sprinkle holy water into their workout bags, fearing that competitors could put a hex on them, Zeru Bekele said.
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For sea voyages, the boats were stocked with food, water, amulets, kneeling pads and tools for fishing, hunting and making repairs to the exterior skin.
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Whether you're in need of dried frogs, amulets, fortune-telling, or some standard, run-of-the-mill llama fetuses, Bolivia's Witches' Market has you covered.
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You are a sign that is notoriously sentimental about objects, dear Cancer, and you stereotypically hold on to collections of amulets that carry meaning and memories.
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My parents, aunts and uncles came to see pirs as backward, or un-Islamic, or charlatans eager to make a quick buck off exorcisms and amulets.
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Oils were rubbed on the body to revitalize it before it was covered with a kind of tree sap, wrapped in linen and magical amulets, and buried.
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Other objects, such as lockets or amulets that have written messages (of love, perhaps, or prayers or magical spells of protection) inside them, should be suitable too.
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Abba Balomi, a 20-year-old, baby-faced hunter, wears amulets around his waist and a beige, quilted cloth vest designed to look like a bulletproof vest.
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After he died, at at least age 100, Thai Buddhists began making Luang Pu Thuat statues and amulets, which, to this day, are thought to possess protective powers.
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Tensions between local authorities and Kamwina Nsapu, whose men are often armed with little more than clubs and magic amulets, has erupted into deadly violence on several occasions.
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Renaissance paintings of the Christ Child often depict him holding or wearing protective coral amulets, and Mediterranean coral from Trapani, Sicily, was especially treasured during the French Empire.
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In 2015, a 27-year-old woman named Farkhunda Malikzada confronted a group of men who were reportedly trafficking amulets and Viagra at a shrine in central Kabul.
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So with St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, get a head start on the festivities with one of the most powerful amulets in Celtic tradition: the horseshoe.
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Detailed, painted mud-plaster fragments as well as scraps of mummy wrappings, beads, and amulets also suggest that a number of the deceased were individuals of high status.
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Neighborhood Joint In the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn — known for its party-fishing boats and waterfront restaurants — there is only one store specializing in evil eye amulets.
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He has stated that before finding God he practiced juju – sometimes considered a form of witchcraft – using a collection of charms and amulets to bring him luck before games.
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Children watch in awe as Ekachai raises his trunk and roars while adults buy lottery tickets based on "auspicious numbers" associated with the elephant and amulets blessed by him.
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And it is there in the smaller things too—a small limestone figure of Horus the child, Greek coins, scarabs and amulets designed for both Greek and Egyptian markets.
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There are dozens of amulets, prayers, and rituals that people across the world believe they can use to both protect themselves from the curse and get rid of it.
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They took the Americans' enthusiasm for this prodigious display as evidence of the Buddhist amulets' superiority over similar Christian charms such as a cross or a St. Christopher medal.
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Other activities include storytelling, a scavenger hunt through the museum's "Panorama of the City of New York," and opportunities to make crafts like feather amulets and mixed-media collages.
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"I am still struck by the idea that all of the professors in the lab would keep special charms and amulets to ward off a specific person," she writes.
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An obviously keen eye and dry sense of humor is behind this throng of carved skulls decorated with precious stones, skeletons, amulets, rosaries, and engravings from Europe and Asia.
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The monk, named Luang Pu Thuat, is believed to be able to grant protection to those who pray to him, and many Buddhists in Southeast Asia wear amulets bearing his likeness.
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There are magazines curated especially for witches, tarot cards with original illustrations, herbs and oils with various protection and healing properties, amulets and pendants, and, of course, an abundance of crystals.
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We caught an early glimpse of his artwork in Noisey's in-depth mini-documentary, where Seyer introduced us to his music and art, which he sees more as sigils and amulets.
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The project has also led to archaeological discoveries: a treasure trove of amulets; a horse still wearing its bronze-plated saddle; a fresco of Narcissus staring at himself in a pool.
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The team also found painted wooden cobra and crocodile sarcophagi, a collection of gilded statues depicting animal features, as well as objects including amulets, canopic jars, writing tools and papyri baskets.
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The piece, based on ubiquitous shelving units found in storage spaces at ethnographic museums, holds reproduced amulets that were taken out of the country; there are also video and sound components.
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Alongside it, the museum displayed some 70 works from its extensive collection, including a priestly headdress, a statuette depicting a worshiping baboon and funerary amulets depicting the four sons of Horus.
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As owner of the Spiritual Candle Shop, he creates amulets and other talismanic items using roots, oils, candles, herbs, and various curios that are part of the African American folk magic pantheon.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archeologists working in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy, say they have unearthed a cache of amulets, good luck charms, gems, and other items of sorcery.
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Through photographs, video, and Styrofoam sculptures based on amulets worn by Galician farmers and fishermen, the artist pays homage to the work required to harvest sustenance from the soil and the sea.
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The character obtains superhuman strength, enhanced reflexes and master martial arts abilities through three mystical amulets designed in the form of tiger's paws and a head that he wore around his neck.
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They used the same materials, made the same kinds of amulets, pins and so on, but in spite of that, there is a visual identity that is genuine to each country and region.
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That show impressed with its wide-ranging display of compositional imbroglios — wickedly mixing post-Surrealist-tinged contemporary art with magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spell thingies and other knotty and nutty quasi-cultural objects.
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No inscription or cartouche was found on the coffin, nor did it contain any silver or gold metallic masks, small statues, amulets, or other items typically associated with royal burials from this time period.
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Amulets have been worn to ward off evil in cultures across the world since the days of Ancient Rome, when certain gemstones were thought to imbue the wearer with the powers of the gods.
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They also saw wooden gilded statues with the features of a lion, a cow and a falcon, as well as 1,000 amulets, some jars, writing tools, and chapters from the Book of the Dead.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — One defendant was the custodian of a holy shrine who trafficked in Viagra, condoms and pagan amulets, and who, when exposed, falsely accused a young woman named Farkhunda of burning a Quran.
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He would sweep up and attach key rings to little red horn amulets that resembled chili peppers and were used for protection against the jealous curse known as the "malocchio," or the evil eye.
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The work of shaping our reality into publicly digestible narratives, amulets we hope will be powerful enough to shake the scales from men's eyes, to make them see us as human, as equal, as sovereign.
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This spring, Mr. Udin wised up, surrounded the beds with chicken wire and placed pieces of Irish Spring soap around like amulets because deer are rumored to turn their noses up at the perfumed cleanser.
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Talismans, amulets, and lucky charms — often in the form of animal sculpture or jewelry — have been used by cultures throughout the world since ancient times, and are thought to be the earliest objects designed by humankind.
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The carved amulets of large penises, sometimes with wings, for young men to wear or had people parade through the countryside with king-sized cock carvings to ward off evil forces with the power of laughter.
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Made of layers of colorful fabric (some of it imported), cut into panels and adorned with trim, amulets and small mirrors, the costume was made to entirely cover its wearer, who could see through a mesh insert.
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Whether it's the mix of gemstones, a bracelet you got during a game-changer trip, or a ring that reminds you of a particular feeling, these items are little amulets you carry with you at all times.
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Last week, after carefully brushing away soil from the bones, Korac's team found two amulets made of lead that, when opened, were each found to rolls of precious metal - silver and gold - covered in symbols and writing.
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Luk Thep have become increasingly popular in Thailand over the past year, though The Telegraph notes that the trend is really just a modern iteration of the traditional practice among Thai customers of carrying amulets for good luck.
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Various other entities can, through their own powers or via potions, amulets, and spells, likewise achieve the unachievable: levitate, teleport, transmogrify, read minds, talk to animals, and, by occult means, charm, confuse, possess, haunt, hex, heal, or kill.
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A search of a truck leaving the temple compound found more than 1,600 illegal items, including two tiger pelts, tiger-skin amulets, tiger teeth and 67 tiger-skin lockets with photos of the temple's abbot, Luangta Chan, inside.
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" Marion Fasel, a New York-based jewelry historian and founder of the online jewelry magazine The Adventurine, agreed: "It's a history that stretches back to the dawn of time and across cultures, from prayer beads and amulets on.
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Gadlin isn't interested in making lucky amulets out of the bones, himself, but promises that if the goal is met, he'll put each bone into a plastic tube and ship them to backers who pledged $10 or more.
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They waved metal amulets reminiscent of clergymen's incense burners in the air to a chant-heavy tune from the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack, before crawling all over each other in what looked like a refined game of Twister.
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According to the Museum's press release, the objects consist of an Achaemenid stamp seal; two stamp-seal amulets "in the form of a reclining sheep or showing a pair of quadrupeds facing in opposite directions"; and five Sumerian artifacts.
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These Thai troops harbored great faith in the amulets' protective power, saying the charms could bend the path of enemy bullets around their bodies or throw up a force field to blunt the blast of an anti-personnel mine.
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Many historians have theorized that, as dark-eyed people were the norm in the region, those with blue eyes were considered most skilled at using the evil eye, likely leading to the prominent use of blue in protective amulets.
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There are also other things like tobaccos, candles, shampoos, soaps, teas, amulets, and voodoo dolls, and tools for all kinds of spells that range from fixing your car to getting a new job or taking revenge on your enemies.
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He was lightly burned on the nose and shoulders, and there were other clues that he'd recently been at a beach: semi-dreadlocks looked sandy, and he wore strings and a couple of amulets and shells around his neck.
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They simply hang on the wall, sit on the floor, lean against a column, or lie heaped in a corner, their expansive, spongy forms taking over the room, as if bulging with the good luck that superstition ascribes to the amulets.
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Also on view are fuzzy, magical amulets from Bangkok, a range of ghastly comic books, some contemporary Asian painting, the great Katsushika Hokusai's ukiyo-e, a swath of wraith yūrei-zu, kakemono woodblock prints, and a room of playable video games.
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Hungry City 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Steps from the hustle of Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, past signs in Spanish for low shipping rates, amulets and shamanic baths, Mitsumine Oda quietly makes onigiri (rice balls) shaped like hearts.
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And Christian imagery and rituals have long been adopted and used to indigenous ends for expressing genuine beliefs or to disguise outlawed religious and cultural practices — in the 19th century, the Tlingit appropriated Russian Orthodox crucifixes as jewelry, amulets, and status symbols.
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She's like, no thanks, even when they threaten her, and eventually they reach a deal where she gets to weaken human babies but not ones that have special amulets, while they get to kill one of every hundred of her demon babies.
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Scott Mendelson, Forbes: As noted above the set up is straight-up Breakfast Club, where three teen outcasts meet up in detention and eventually run into two other kids, and together they end up stumbling upon secret amulets that give them super powers.
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The monolithic "Collar de Tejos de Santa Clara, Anillo Liliputense Producto de Exportación, Arracada Plana de Huetamo, La Cadena de Oaxaca" and "Prendedor Etrusco Cuanajense" (1978–86), the amulets for the Statue of Liberty, were built in collaboration with the women at the school.
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What ties its wildly diverse elements together is a visual style of burdened entanglement that overloads the specific intentions and functions behind contemporary art, magical charms, sorcerers' amulets, witchy spells, spiritual worldviews, psychic theories, Christian religious beliefs, African community healers, and other indigenous cultural habits.
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"The use of these kinds of amulets and talismanic objects as forms of material protection was commonplace and it was something that united a disparate range of cultures and societies that feature in the exhibition, stretching from Europe to the Islamic world," Handley said.
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The Cooper Hewitt's Design Fest, a free fair, presents gallery scavenger hunts, a design project with Adobe and seven drop-in workshops led by winners of the museum's National Design Awards, with topics such as making miniature chairs and creating amulets with recycled materials.
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With the help of at least two women who have been arrested so far, Mullah Landay is accused of exploiting women who were unable to have children by claiming he could "cure" them — first with religious amulets and, when that didn't work, with sex.
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"Interesting is the iconography of objects and amulets, which invoke fortune, fertility, and protection against bad luck, and the numerous pendants in the shape of a small phallus, or the ear, the closed fist, the skull, the figure of Harpocrates, the scarabs," Osanna said in his statement.
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Belief in the curse dates back at least 5,000 years to the Sumerians of the Euphrates Valley, though historians have found cave drawings up to 10,000 years old in Spain and amulets from 3,300 BC Syria that they believe were used to ward off the Evil Eye.
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An obviously keen eye and dry sense of humor is behind this throng (180 pieces) of mostly carved skulls decorated with precious stones, carved skeletons, flamboyant ivory amulets, nerve-jangling luxe rosaries, disconcerting trinkets, unsettling engravings, and carved wood and marble objects from Europe and Asia.
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The artist has taken the amulets' varied forms and enlarged them enormously in relation to the original, but the resulting sculptures, made from styrofoam covered in rock-hard papier mâché, remain very much on a human scale, with most of them the size of a three-year-old child.
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Since then, her pieces have maintained a mystical old-world feel: She prefers rounded cabochon stones to more modern cut gems, her signature charms — natural rock crystals encased in gold settings — take inspiration from medieval amulets, and she continues to work with Florentine goldsmiths who use traditional artisanal techniques.
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Like many of the other shops, the Di Virgilio workshop stocks little red horn amulets, which look a bit like chili peppers and are meant to ward off bad luck ("We have a saying in Naples: 'It's not true, but I believe it'") and figurines that cleverly piggyback on international politics.
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The movie updates the uninitiated us on the Blair Witch curse and provides some new details, including a bit about exactly why those creepy wooden amulets that keep showing up in the night look like that, but on the whole, once these kids set up camp in the forest, it's the same movie.
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Chrissy had a kind, maternal face and a head of tight brown curls, which, along with acid-washed mom jeans and a floral-print short-sleeved shirt, gave her the appearance of a seaside pensioner, though her bare feet and a pair of esoteric-looking amulets around her neck alluded to her profession.
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Another friend I knew from college in Virginia decided that we needed matching sets of daggers on our outer ribs, both because they would look good peeking out from a tank top that summer and because they would serve as protective amulets against the unrelenting crush of the city we'd moved to after graduation.
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And if his close-ups have a parallel in contemporary American Pop Art, or in the French painting of Narrative Figuration, there is no apparent social engagement here, unless you count the alienated downward gaze and the extreme cropping of the images, which turns the amulets of the borghesi into things ornery, oppressive and comic.
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After passing a replica of the Arch of Titus, commemorating Rome's victory over Jerusalem, and depicting soldiers carrying the seven-branched menorah, visitors are offered a well-lit and spacious display of original and replicated artifacts: ancient engravings, amulets, rings, seals and oil lamps with Jewish symbols, medieval manuscripts, some now on permanent loan from other national Italian museums.
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It does something else too: It evokes, to the extent that any selection of uprooted objects can, the pulse of lived life in East Africa's cosmopolitan port cities, with their markets, mosques and fantasy-selling photo studios, and their polycultural populations decked out in Central Asian silks, Somali silver amulets and sky-high platform sandals from who knows where.
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CreditCreditAmanda Mustard for The New York Times SRIRACHA, Thailand — When Thai park rangers raided a popular zoo famous for letting visitors feed and handle tigers, their grisly haul three years ago shocked the world: 2000,863 tiger parts, including pelts, amulets fashioned from skins, scores of teeth, 286 dead cubs found in a freezer and 22016 more preserved in jars.
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Yet with some of these artifacts that reflect religious beliefs, she traces a continuum between Africa and its diaspora such as in Beaded Prayers Project (1999–2004), an accumulative installation that comprises over 4000 beaded prayers, she explores amulets as body adornment, and for their more intrinsic value as divination, protective, spiritual, and healing objects in the African and African Diaspora traditions.
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In other cases, such as that of a mother cradling an infant with glassy eyes and its head lolling over her arm, it's difficult to imagine what anyone involved could have been thinking — until you remember some accident or tragedy you've witnessed yourself, and think back to the bystanders holding out their iPhones like amulets between themselves and the raw fact.
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SOAS senior lecturer Dr Jörg Haustein explains how colonizers used Christianity as a control mechanism to replace traditional African religions: "The Portuguese banned amulets and 'charms' during the Inquisition—the objects in question were certainly used for what we might call religious practices today, but they were also tokens of political allegiance and economic relations in the various networks between villages and states," he says.
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In it, he supposedly used Kabbalistic magic, Hebrew letters, paranormal amulets, or mystical incantations to conjure into existence the Golem of Prague: a colossal figure built from mud or other base materials, who protected the Bohemian Jews of the country from the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Though initially a savior, the Golem of Prague eventually became harmful to those he had saved and had to be destroyed.
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The performance opens with a poem by Tom Sleigh that, harking back to the amygdalae, compares the mourning braid to the mysterious workings of the grieving brain: "If you were to peer into the mourner's skull / where all this feeling is electrical signals / firing, what you'd see are nerve fibers, / long strands of tissue that look like dead people's hair / braided into amulets, lockets / in barrows and old tombs," chant two women in not-quite unison.
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The aging trainers, Buriram and Tua, necks bejeweled with umpteen Buddha amulets, eyes closed, hands in prayer position, hoping for their numbers to come up in the lottery results that are being read out loud on the radio; an American kickboxer on a busman's holiday, looking for the promoter and the 2000 Baht ($56) that he's been owed since last month for a grueling bout up country; Lek, our senior trainer, arms folded, shorts inside out, berating a farang kickboxer for being too staccato on the pads.
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" (He also wrote of the ancient Egyptians and their use of the Eye of Osiris, one of their gods, in amulets to protect them against evil magic, both during life and in the afterlife.) Belief in the evil eye is said to be strengthened among followers of Islam by verses 51 and 52 of the Al-Qalam Surah in the Quran: "And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say: Indeed, he is mad.
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