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A Amenonuhoko Azusa Yumi G Gohei (Japanese: 御幣) Goshintai (Japanese: 御神体) H Hama Yumi (Japanese: 破魔弓) Heisoku (Japanese: 幣束) I Imperial Regalia of Japan (Japanese: 三種の神器) K Kagura suzu (Japanese: 神楽鈴) Kusanagi (Japanese: 草薙の剣) Koma-inu (Japanese: 狛犬) M Mitamashiro (Japanese: 御霊代) N Nihongo or Nippongo (Japanese: 日本号) O O-fuda ...
Silk workers: Severus of Avranches is the Catholic patron saint of silk workers. Spinning: Saint Catherine is the patron saint of spinners. Tapestry workers: Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of tapestry workers. Weaving: Onuphrius is considered a patron saint of weaving in Coptic, Eastern, and Oriental Orthodoxy as well as Catholic traditions.
In addition to partial characters mentioned above, the two-silk texts sometimes use characters different from those in later versions. This is similar to the English "She flowered the table" compared with "She floured the table", and the older version provides insight into a text's original meaning.
Magic bean, Jack trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans which caused a gigantic beanstalk to grow outside Jack's window during the night. (British fairy tale) (British fairy tale) Mandrake , In the past, mandrake was often made into amulets which were believed to bring good fortune, cure sterility, etc.
Russian folklore has a similar magic item called Сапоги-Скороходы (fast-pace boots), which allows the person wearing them to walk and run at an amazing pace. In Finnish and Estonian translations of stories with seven-league boots, they are often translated as Seitsemän Peninkulman Saappaat (Finnish) and Seitsmepenikoormasaapad ...
A table of magical correspondences is a list of magical correspondences between items belonging to different categories, such as correspondences between certain deities, heavenly bodies, plants, perfumes, precious stones, etc. [1] Such lists were compiled by 19th-century occultists like Samuel Liddell Mathers and William Wynn Westcott (both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ...
Visible mending is a practice of repairing the item in a non-traditional way, which means that less importance is placed on simplicity and speed of the repair work and more on the decorative aspect. [3] Popular methods of visible mending are: embroidery; patching with contrasting fabrics or textile waste, such as clothing tags or ribbon scraps
Silk – a silk handkerchief. Shell – a hollowed out coin or ball which fits over the real object allowing vanish and reproductions. Shell game – a confidence trick involving three half walnut shells and a pea. The mark bets on which shell contains the pea but loses every time because the operator is cheating with sleight of hand.