Sentence examples for protective charm from inspiring English sources

Part of the programme's protective charm (based on "real-life claims", it boasts) is that its conspiracy theories invite further conspiracy theories, invariably of the pop cultural kind.

In 1999 the pro-government chief of Mwenga fled an advancing rebel army, leaving his wife behind with the town's protective charm; the soldiers publicly buried her alive with the charm.

Fallen under her protective charm, Mary-Ann befriends Michael Tolliver, a young gay man up for pretty much anything but nurturing secret dreams of a quiet life with a rugged Labrador owner.

If the parents did not perform this, the child will be affected by likonde" (father, Kihamba Village) "When the child falls sick s/he is given a protective charm to wear and grows with it until it falls off" (Traditional Healer, 35 years, Kihamba Village) Participants in five FGDs from 3 communities believed that injections, given to a convulsing child, could be fatal.

They functioned as protective charms.

Phalli regularly appear in Roman art as protective charms.

His closest companion is Quiri, a servant who teaches him animistic beliefs, fears and protective charms.

The identities sought are almost always those of animal deities, or of animals having the ability to offer protective charms or to communicate with otherworldly powers.

There's no tidy school year structure and none of the safety of Hogwarts and its many protective charms.

I look at traditional costumes influenced by cross- cultural fusion, protective charms and amulets to ward off the evil eye and elaborate costumes worn by Bedouin women with intricate embroidery.

Several "obias" (protective charms to ward off outsiders) were hanging along the entrance path to her garden.