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Featuring jewelry using amulets, fetishes, and talismans

Splendors of Ancient Egypt Artifacts Again, tiny carvings are interspersed between the beads.
Faience Hippo Read the paragraph above the sets of pictures and find the symbolic significance of lions, scarabs, frogs, and more.

C eramic Pendants I could not resist showing you these modern ceramic pendants from Greece.
Anthropomorphic Pendant
Anthropomorphic Pendant 2 These two pendants are made of bone, but clay is a good medium for stylized shapes and forms. These look almost modern in their simplicity.
Flower-Shaped Bead Necklace Each individual bead in this necklace is a stylized flower.
Two Pendants in the Form of Vases These bronze pendants are actually containers. Now, that's an idea!
Four Bird-Shaped and One Animal-Shaped Pendants Care would certainly have to be taken on creating animal designs not to make the appendages too thin, but aren't these beautiful forms?
Bronze Pendant
Two Bronze Pendants How could this type of design be transferred into clay?
Incised Beads The faces carved into these beads are simple, but charming.
Teeth Necklace Made of animal teeth, but has a nice balance of large forms and small forms.
Engraved Stone and Gold Pendant Touches of gild can be used on fired clay to give the impression of gold framing. [This one really is gold.]
Gold Duck Pendant
Gold Lion Pendant The above duck and the lion here are very aesthetic forms and could be used fairly successfully in clay.
Pendant consider how something like this might be strung on leather or string.

A History of Charms and Charm Bracelets Using this link, answer the questions on the Fetish Worksheet.
A Gallery of Charms I just threw in this collection of modern charm bracelets to look at.
African Tribal Charms Made in South Africa - Magickal Jewelry and Gifts Not a great web site, but the charms are worth looking at.
History and legends of lucky charms and talismans An article about charms being used in modern times for magical reasons.

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