Amulets Sentence Examples

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  • He should wear protective amulets like the Secret Dragon to empower his work.

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  • Of smaller pieces many are magical and used as amulets.

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  • Beads and all kinds of amulets could be infused with magical power so as to be potent phylacteries to those who wore them.

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  • Glass amulets were also commonly placed upon Ptolemaic mummies.

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  • The objects found - pottery, scarabs, jewelry, amulets, &c. - were of considerable interest.

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  • A special feature of the Sakti cult is the use of obscure Vedic mantras, often changed so as to be quite meaningless and on that very account deemed the more efficacious for the acquisition of superhuman powers; as well as of mystic letters and syllables called bija (germ), of magic circles (chakra) and diagrams (yantra), and of amulets of various materials inscribed with formulae of fancied mysterious import.

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  • It was worked by the Assyrians for their engraved cylinder-seals, and was used by the gnostics for amulets.

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  • Up to the present time its verses are used as amulets; it is employed in the lamentations for the dead; it has been frequently edited and made the basis for other poems, and new poems have been made by interpolating four or six lines after each line of the original.

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  • Neither temples nor images (except small figures worn as amulets) occur among the people of the south-east; but they have a great dread of departed spirits, especially those of the hostile inland tribes, and of a being called Vata, who causes disease and death.

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  • Amulets are worn to ensure success in buying, selling, hunting, fishing and in war, as well as for protection against evil.

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  • For example; The ancient Egyptians used Hematite in the creation of their magical amulets.

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  • His later date is also based on the discovery of Egyptian amulets in the tombs northwest of Jericho.

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  • Use gold amulets for depression, comforting and strengthening the heart, hallowing, wealth, protection, healing.

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  • Both these amulets are pierced longways to hang on a necklace, as typical of many scarab amulets.

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  • In both cases the repetition of the legend and the recitation of a string of mystical names serve, like some other tales, apocryphal and otherwise, as amulets, sufficient to protect from the devil.

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  • According to Professor Ridgeway, however, the Turkish crescent, like that seen on modern horse-trappings, has nothing to do with the new moon, but is the result of the baseto-base conjunction of two claw or tusk amulets, an example of which has been brought to light during the excavations of the site of the temple of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (see Athenaeum, March 21, 1908).

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  • Eventually, the Celts came to believe that pendants could be worn as amulets.

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  • From small good luck amulets to museum reproductions, Mercury Treasures offers a vast array of feng shui products and lucky objects.

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  • There are countless additional good luck objects, charms, amulets and talismans that exist in cultures around the world.

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  • Also known as amulets and talismans, some types of lucky charms are meant for people to wear or carry, while others are meant for placement in special areas of homes or offices.

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  • Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July is a fun cartoon that describes how Frosty the Snowman and his family receive magic amulets to keep them from melting until the Fourth of July.

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  • The ancient Egyptian obsession with the afterlife is also quite intriguing, filled with magical amulets like the Ankh and the scarab.

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  • Spears, battle-axes, collars, rings, amulets, medals of gold, ornaments of silver, jet and amber, &c., have also been found in various places.

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  • The present Palazzo Comunale, a Renaissance edifice, contains a fine museum, chiefly remarkable for the contents of prehistoric tombs found in the district (including good bronze fibulae, necklaces, amulets, &c., often decorated with amber), and a large collection of acorn-shaped lead missiles (glandes) used by slingers, belonging to the time of the siege of Asculum during the Social War (89 B.C.).

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  • Some curious memorials of the superstition have survived in rings and amulets, engraven with the various signs, and worn as a kind of astral defensive armour.

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  • Amulets and ornaments in the form of the figure or mask of Bes are common after the New Kingdom; he is often associated with children and with childbirth and is figured in the "birth-houses" devoted to the cult of the child-god.

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  • Amulets, seals, talismans, relics, ear or nose rings stamped with divine emblems or otherwise hallowed, communicate their holiness to the wearers and protect from the Adversary.

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  • It is extremely hard to draw any fixed line in Egypt between magic and medicine; but it is curious to note that simple diagnoses and prescriptions were employed for the more curable diseases, while magical formulae and amulets are reserved for those that are harder to cope with, such as the bites of snakes and the stings of scorpions.

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  • Besides varied and beautiful weapons, frequently exhibiting high workmanship, amulets, coronets, diadems of solid gold, and vases of elegant form and ornamentation in gold and bronze are found in the barrows.

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  • In the Saite period a sort of standard edition was drawn up, consisting of 165 chapters in a fixed order and with a common title the book of going forth in the day; this recension was published by Lepsius in 1842 from a Turin papyrus Like the Pyramid texts, the Book of the Dead served a funerary purpose, but its contents are far more heterogeneous; besides chapters enabling the dead man to assume what shape he will, or to issue triumphant from the last judgment, there are lists of gates to be passed and demons to be encountered in the nether world, formulae such as are inscribed on sepulchral figures and amulets, and even hymns to the sun-god.

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  • He became specially notorious because of a curious controversy that arose concerning the amulets which Eybeschiitz was suspected of issuing.

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  • These amulets recognized the Messianic claims of Sabbatai Sebi, and a famous rabbinic contemporary of Eybeschiitz, Jacob Emden, boldly accused him of heresy.

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  • How strongly his mind revolted against the use of charms, amulets, incantations and such devices appears from his writings; and he has expressly recorded, as underlying all his practice, the conviction that, however diseases may be regarded from the religious point of view, they must all be scientifically treated as subject to natural laws (De acre, 29).

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