AMULETS, or Preservatives, are certain characters, ligaments, stones or metals, engraved or adorned with Stars, to which a power was attributed of preserving People from mischief, from being bewitched, Ch. xxxi. 19. Ch. xxxv. 4.and from diseases. Some are of opinion that Laban’s Teraphims, which were carried away by Rachel, and the ear-rings which Jacob hid under an oak, were Preservatives or Amulets. See hereafter TALISMANS.
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