| In fact most European magic was apotropaic, seeking to prevent, to protect, to repel. |
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| He also notes that the motifs on these objects had apotropaic roles designed to protect their owners against status-degradation. |
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| More apotropaic methods included stuffing objects into the orifices of corpses or confronting the ambulatory blood-sucker with a crucifix. |
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| These names are considered to have apotropaic power to protect the new-born from the evil eye. |
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| The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye. |
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| The apotropaic qualities of metal bells are recognized in Africa, where such bells may be associated with chieftainship. |
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| Maybe it's an apotropaic gesture, maybe one writes to ward off death. |
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| The purpose of such names, which are called apotropaic names, is to make the child undesirable to demons. |
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| The apotropaic powers of Arabic letters, phrases, verses, and writing themselves are central to Mouride belief systems and, indeed, Sufi mysticism more generally. |
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| New means of warding off ill fortune need to be found, new figures, a new apotropaic imagery. |
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| We can conclude that the incised patterns of the kunda and dibu bells, like those of the whisk, combine aesthetic astonishment with apotropaic function. |
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| This was so that they could become – that splendid word – apotropaic. |
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| We looked for apotropaic markings on the clunch walls of local barns and cottages, we walked up Mary's Well, a sunken lane in Kingcombe that buoyed with hedge-life. |
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| The cause of Bes' apotropaic character needs further investigation by Egyptologists. |
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| A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force. |
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| It includes words like apotropaic and transhumant. |
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| Certain great landmark rivers, the scene of both civic cults and private devotions, are believed to have general therapeutic and apotropaic powers. |
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| Generally malcapitato if scampava using some apotropaic ritual and Janas went on, simply launching curses some curse against those who had been rude with them. |
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| Later the same day the branded ox was ritually medicated for apotropaic reasons with bile from another ox killed by a blow to the head from a stone to obtain its gall bladder. |
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| Another explanation is that the head-cover is an apotropaic symbol and the semantic value is, in this case, connected to the pragmatic nature of the ritual efficiency. |
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| A darker, apotropaic note is sounded by the scraps of this prayer sewn on black strips of cloth winding around the supporting posts of the entrance and interior of the tent. |
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| Yet in discussing the word duraosa in the Gathas, Schwartz notes the sauma is mentioned in the context of burning and he links this with the apotropaic magic of later Iran. |
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