phylactery

"Please! You'll ruin my grass. Put that phylactery down! Aw, you broke it. "

From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2015

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Brugsch, referring to Plutarch and calendar texts, shows that the commencement of the Isis festival dated from the time when Isis assumed a phylactery, or amulet, to indicate that she had conceived.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

I do not know how Kirstie became convinced that, whoever or whatever the enemy might be, Mr. Johnstone was the phylactery.

From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Then he stepped without ostentation in the centurion's way—a weak, small figure in fringes and phylactery, living up to his nature as he fronted brassy Rome.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

But they did not don prayer shawls or phylacteries — small cases holding slips inscribed with passages of Scripture bound to the head and arm— that are customarily worn during morning prayers.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

“Observant travelers may be wearing a head covering, prayer shawl, and phylacteries — in Hebrew, kippah, tallit, and tefillin,” according to the travel notice on the TSA Web site.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2014

Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration.

From Time Magazine Archive

The answer is his prayer shawl and phylacteries.

From Time Magazine Archive

I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel