Amulets HWSM 01 026

2021-11-28T00:00:00Z

Amulets "The general consensus among early modern practitioners of magic and their modern scholars is that amulets are natural items, such as the roots of plants or stones. They are usually unfashioned, bearing no words or images and operate of themselves by their intrinsic natural powers. Talismans, on the other hand, are artificial items, their power coming partly from inherent material qualities, occult or manifest, but augmented by human intervention, with the aid of magical operations, and invested with superior powers" (p. 358, n2). Forshaw, Peter J. "Magical Material & Material Survivals: Amulets, Talismans, and Mirrors in Early Modern Europe." The Materiality of Magic . Bremmer Boschungand and Dietrich Boschung (eds), Wilhelm Fink, 2015. https://www.worldcat.org/title/materiality-of-magic/oclc/891030744