Welcoming back Sandra Brenchley to chat about amulets, charms, talismans, and other fetishes. To this day, everyone has a lucky charm of some sort. What do they mean in antiquity? What should they mean for the characters in your story? #WhatsInYourGrisGrisBag?
Mentions from Episode 40:
- How to make a quarantini
- Pliny the Elder
- Lucky Charms – if you’re not American
- Why Tiger Woods wears a red shirt
- God’s Eye or Nazar
- That (Feminist) Scholar Agrippa
- On Gris Gris bags
- The Golem of Prague
- Juicy Fruit gum
- Plague Bouquet
- Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs on barns
- Jeannie found a cool Hierolyphics Translator
- Manly Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages in .pdf form
- Historic stained glass cartoons
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