When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: religious charms jewelry

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Amulet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amulet

    A nazar, an amulet to ward off the evil eye. An amulet, also known as a good luck charm or phylactery, is an object believed to confer protection upon its possessor. The word "amulet" comes from the Latin word amuletum, which Pliny's Natural History describes as "an object that protects a person from trouble".

  3. Cross necklace - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_necklace

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art book Metropolitan Jewelry by Sophie McConnell and Alvin Grossman states: "In the first centuries of the Christian era, the cross was a clandestine symbol used by the persecuted adherents of the new religion."

  4. Nazar (amulet) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar_(amulet)

    A Turkish nazar boncuğu Eye beads or nazars – amulets against the evil eye – for sale in a shop.. A naẓar (from Arabic ‏ نَظَر ‎ , meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts), or an eye bead is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye.

  5. List of lucky symbols - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lucky_symbols

    A good luck charm is an amulet or other item that is believed to bring good luck. Almost any object can be used as a charm. Coins, horseshoes and buttons are examples, as are small objects given as gifts, due to the favorable associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of tiny items that may be used as good luck charms.

  6. Hamsa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa

    A hanging hamsa in Tunisia. The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة, romanized: khamsa, lit. 'five', referring to images of 'the five fingers of the hand'), [1] [2] [3] also known as the hand of Fatima, [4] is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.

  7. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_objects

    Charmstone (charm-stone and charm stone), a stone or mineral artifact associated with various traditional cultures, including those of Scotland and the native cultures of California and the American southwest. Snakestones (also Serpentstones), fossilised ammonites were thought to be petrified coiled snakes, and were called snakestones.

  1. Ads

    related to: religious charms jewelry