Sentence examples similar to apotropaic object from inspiring English sources

"Apotropaic (69 mins)?" splutters Simon McMahon.

It includes words like apotropaic and transhumant.

This was so that they could become – that splendid word – apotropaic.

The apotropaic qualities of metal bells are recognized in Africa, where such bells may be associated with chieftainship.

In certain traditions clowning is an apotropaic (averting evil) ritual, a way of deflecting demonic attention from serious religious activities.

This figure, which was not at all erotic, is reckoned by those in the know to have an apotropaic function.

The purpose of such names, which are called apotropaic names, is to make the child undesirable to demons.

"Should United win, that banner could prove one of the most expensive apotropaic devices in history," opines Christopher Barnes.

Certain great landmark rivers, the scene of both civic cults and private devotions, are believed to have general therapeutic and apotropaic powers.

In the Ardèche they worked furiously, tended vines, wrote, painted and created splendid apotropaic reliefs of strange beasts in the garden.

One is an M, formed by two inverted Vs, a symbol termed apotropaic, meaning to ward off evil, which can be read as "Virgin of virgins" or Mary.