amulet

Facing the prospect of life-altering injury or death, men readily sacralized objects they believed might serve as amulets against harm.

In November, for instance, archaeologists dug up more than 100 ornately painted wooden coffins, some with mummies, and dozens of other artifacts, including amulets, funeral statues and masks.

Was it a charm or amulet to be used by anyone which derived its value from the signification given to it?

A girl who loves one man purely has about her an amulet which defies the advances of the profligate.

She plucked an amulet from her neck, gazing on it for an instant ere she laid it softly, tenderly, in the dead man's breast.

In Aristotle's time, rue hung about the neck as an amulet prevented witchcraft.

When the girl heard that her spouse had been killed she took a piece of his skin and wore it as an amulet.