And in the declining era of the Roman Empire, we find this superstitious custom so general that the Emperor Caracalla was induced to make a public edict, ordering, that no man should wear any superstitious amulets about his person.

But this Agrippa, for profound And solid lying, was renown'd: The Anthroposophus, and Floud, And Jacob Behmen, understood; Knew many an amulet and charm That would do neither good nor harm.

It was in vain that they intoned their monotonous chant, rang their little bells and hand-bells, employed their most precious amulets, and more particularly, a horn full of mud and bark, the point of which was terminated by three little horns.

One day he found an amulet.

Therewith saying, she hung the amulet about the neck of Sir Percival, and Sir Percival gave her thanks beyond measure for it.

For a reason which I have already indicatedI mean the habitual reticence of the ancient writers respecting the period of their boyhoodit is not easy to form a very vivid conception of the kind of education given to a Roman boy of good family up to the age of fifteen, when he laid aside the golden amulet and embroidered toga to assume a more independent mode of life.

Camel-drivers squat beside iron kettles over heaps of embers, sorcerers from the Sahara offer their amulets to negro women, peddlers with portable wooden booths sell greasy cakes that look as if they had been made out of the garbage of the caravans, and in and out among the unknown dead and sleeping saints circulates the squalid indifferent life of the living poor.

I have reason to think this piece of gold," and she produced the amulet, "is in some way or other connected with the mystery.

The blood-red rose had proved a magician's amulet to confirm her mind in the sweet teachings of her heart.

He advised amulets of mercury to be worn in bags suspended at the chest and nostrils, either as a safeguard, or as means of cure; by which method, through the admissiveness of the pores, effluvia specially destructive of all venomous insects, were received into the blood.

Dr. Willis, in his Treatise on nervous disorders, does not hesitate to recommend amulets in epileptic disorders.

" He leaped on the back of his beast as it knelt, and, turning round to me, cried: "Come thou also, Sahib, a little along the road, and I will sell thee a charman amulet that shall make thee King of Kafiristan.

5. to Philip Melancthon, and others, and that Christian armour which Paul prescribes; he sets down certain amulets, herbs, and precious stones, which have marvellous virtues all, profligandis daemonibus, to drive away devils and their illusions.

Plutarch says of Pericles, an Athenian general, that when a friend come to see him, and inquired after his health he reached out his hand and shewed him his amulet; by which he meant to intimate the truth of his illness, and, at the same time, the confidence he placed in these popular remedies.

And he took steps that it should be, for he began stealing away Kaviak's few cherished possessionshis amulet, his top from under the bunk, his boats from out the water-bucket, wherewith to mitigate the barrenness of the Yukon tree, and to provide a pleasant surprise for the Esquimer who mourned his playthings as gone for ever.

Yet shall he swallow these little brass amulets of his, at the rate of one a day, and then be banished from the country.

Therewith she took from her neck a small golden amulet pendant from a silke

Other factories turned out amulets and charms.

In one hand was a wand of red-dyed wood with a beaded and quilled amulet at the end.

Of blue and purple and pale gold are the mantles that they wear, And for plumes they carry amulets that dangle high in air.