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Red string (Kabbalah) Red string from near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Wearing a thin scarlet or a crimson string ( Hebrew: חוט השני, khutt hashani) as a type of talisman is a Jewish folk custom which is practiced as a way to ward off misfortune which is brought about by the "evil eye" ( Hebrew: עין הרע). The tradition is ...
A kautuka is a red-yellow coloured ritual protection thread, sometimes with knots, found on the Indian subcontinent. It is sometimes called a kalava, mauli, moui, raksasutra, [1] pratisara (in North India), kaapu, kayiru, charandu or rakshadhara (in South India). [2] [3] [4] A kautuka is a woven thread, cord or ribbon, states the Indologist Jan ...
According to one view, Lilith was originally a Sumerian, Babylonian, or Hebrew mother goddess of childbirth, children, women, and sexuality. Raymond Buckland holds that Lilith is a dark moon goddess on par with the Hindu Kali. [page needed] Many theistic Satanists consider Lilith a goddess. She is considered a goddess of independence by those ...
The service at Manchester Cathedral came during an ongoing exhibition of seven memorial quilts that remember up to 500 men, women and children killed. Kenny Donaldson, director at South East ...
Mithil Aggarwal. July 3, 2024 at 5:12 AM. At least 116 people, all but one of them women and children, were killed in a stampede at a religious event in northern India, authorities said. Hundreds ...
The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has found, a trend ...
Watercolour by James Tissot (c. 1900). Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch ( Torah ), the central part of the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites.
Red String (webcomic), a manga-style webcomic. Red thread of fate, an East Asian belief similar to the concept of a soulmate. The Red String (documentary) a documentary film about four Chinese-born girls and their adopted families. Redstring Productions, Inc., an American-based family entertainment company. Red Strings, a group of pro-Union ...