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- Apotropaic magic (from Gr**** αποτρέπω, apotrépō 'to ward off') or protective magic is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as...
- Abracadabra is a magic word, historically used as an apotropaic incantation on amulets and common today in stage magic. It is of unknown origin. Pronunciation...
- Laḫmu (𒀭𒌓𒈬 or 𒀭𒈛𒈬, d laḫ-mu, lit. 'hairy one') is a class of apotropaic creatures from Mesopotamian mythology. While the name has its origin in a...
- A witch bottle is a apotropaic magical item used as protection against witchcraft. They are described in historical sources from England and the United...
- Birth tusks (also called magical wands or apotropaic wands) are wands for apotropaic magic (to ward off evil), mainly from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt...
- frequently wore amulets with his head on them as protection from her. As an apotropaic entity, he is considered as both a personification of a destructive and...
- ("Aphrodite of the beautiful buttocks"). In other contexts, this gesture has an apotropaic character, that is, a means to ward off a supernatural enemy, or it may...
- Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood or touch wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating...
- the helmet that is found in all five Getian helmets is their so-called “apotropaic” eyes, which could have looked out as a second set from immediately above...
- own vast weight of meanings, ****ociations, nostalgia and significance. Apotropaic magic – Magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences Behenian fixed...