"In Rhodesia, Rick had killed a lion that was menacing a village, and the lion's tooth was strung into a necklace that he wore as a protective talisman.
He described the aroma as a kind of protective talisman that shields the tiny neighborhood of 19th-century brick warehouses against the invading forces of New York real estate.
Beyond its value as a social status symbol, a painted portrait, particularly of a child, was a combination of genetic trophy, protective talisman and personal memento: a record of continuity, a wish for the future, a reminder of what was or might have been.
It is hung with additional protective talismans: shark teeth and bear and dinosaur claws, both cast and real.
She sees her songs as "protective talismans" and 2015's How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful started life as a concept album about a heartbroken Hollywood witch, "kind of like The Crucible but a musical … we were going to call it Crusical". At home she'd often be visited by a psychic cat, and on tour she'd perform 5am rituals in hotels.
Owen Sheers' dramatic poem, originally written to be broadcast on radio, sings with the rhythms of Bristol speech, invokes local place names like protective talismans, and takes its name from a military term for the spray of blood that mists the air after a sniper or roadside bomb attack.
After I was called to this purpose, my journey with digital fabrication began, and I learned to invoke protective talismans through my oracle the Makerbot".
Again and again, she has been drawn to all varieties of what she once called "protective talismans, totems, garlands of garlic, repeated pieties". In that case, she was referring to the state of political discourse after Sept. 11.
In traditional China, numerous protective rituals and talismans were devised to ward guei away from the family abode, and the main entrance was usually screened by a protective "shadow wall". See also shen.
Lending credence to that theory, many of Stonehenge's bluestones have been chipped away over the ages, perhaps by long-lost pilgrims seeking protective or healing talismans from the location.
Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural Astrolabes, talismans and the protective image of the Hand of Fatima are among the beautiful objects in this magical journey through Islamic art.
