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Detail from a relief showing a Roman boy wearing a bulla Etruscan bulla depicting Icarus. A bulla, an amulet worn like a locket, was given to male children in Ancient Rome nine days after birth. Inside the medallion, an amulet was placed, which was usually a phallus – a symbol that brought good luck in antiquity.
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.
In the popular belief the Romans wore amulets usually as a talisman, to protect themselves against evil forces, demons and sorcery, but especially against the evil eye. Lunulae were common throughout the entire Mediterranean region while their male counterpart, the bulla, was most popular in Italy. [ 4 ]
The island of Ireland, with border between Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland indicated.. Symbols of Ireland are marks, images, or objects that represent Ireland. Because Ireland was not partitioned until 1922, many of the symbols of Ireland predate the division into Southern Ireland (later Irish Free State and then Ireland) and Northern Ireland.
An amulet is an object that is generally worn for protection and made from a durable material (metal or hard-stone). Both amulets and talismans can be applied to paper examples as well. [2] Amulets are sometimes confused with pendants, small aesthetic objects that hang from necklaces. Any given pendant may indeed be an amulet but so may any ...
President-Elect Donald Trump’s controversial Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is a war veteran, double Ivy Leaguer, a two-time Bronze Star recipient – and is covered in tattoos.
The symbol is also sometimes used by Wiccans, White Witches, and some New Agers to symbolise the Triple Goddess, or as a protective symbol. [ 7 ] In the 1998–2006 American fantasy drama Charmed , that ran on the now-defunct The WB network, the triquetra was prominently used as a symbol on the Halliwells' Book of Shadows , the book of spells ...
Bulla (amulet), given to boys in Ancient Rome; Bulla (seal), in archaeology, an inscribed clay or soft metal token used in ancient times for commercial or legal documentation; Bulla Felix, an Italian bandit, fl. 205–207 AD