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  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • Graeco-Roman phallic amulet
  • A black cat used as a good luck charm by soldiers during the First World War.
  • 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 and as a charm against plague
  • Yoruba Ibeji figures, representing twins
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Compass encased within a shell, good luck charm
  • 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 and as a charm against plague
  • A selection of good luck charms used by soldiers
  • 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. (Open)
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Amuletic necklace worn to cure bronchitis, Woolwich, London.
  • Beaten gold lips, found in Cyprus, supposed to ba a Mycenean amulet.
  • Cabbalistic amulet for safe pregnancy, 18th c.
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • Cabbalistic amulet for the cure from jaundice, 18th c.
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • 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 and as a charm against plague
  • Chinese woodcut: Healing by invocation
  • Vipern Schnurre.
  • A Coconut charm, New Ginuea
  • 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 and as a charm against plague
  • Compass encased within a shell, good luck charm
  • 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 and as a charm against plague
  • Chinese woodcut: Talisman against epidemic diseases
  • 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 quills. Northern Plains
  • Chinese charm to accelerate labour