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(Chashme Baddoor (slogan)), may be used to ward off the evil eye. Some truck owners write the slogan to ward off the evil eye: "buri nazar wale tera muh...76 KB (9,845 words) - 10:45, 20 May 2024
sign of the horns may be given to ward off further bad luck. It is also used traditionally to counter or ward off the "evil eye" (Italian: malocchio)...25 KB (2,962 words) - 16:42, 5 May 2024
Apotropaic magic (redirect from Ward (magic))Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπειν "to ward off") or protective magic is a type of magic intended to turn away harm or evil influences, as in deflecting...28 KB (3,294 words) - 22:30, 23 April 2024
roof. Paintings depicting this kamikiri-mushi would be sold as amulets to ward off evil spirits, and it became a trend to wear paper charms on one's self...11 KB (1,628 words) - 19:24, 13 May 2024- A Spell To Ward Off the Darkness is a 2013 experimental film directed by Ben Russell and Ben Rivers, starring Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe. It was released...7 KB (574 words) - 04:19, 10 March 2024
spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck. Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to...23 KB (2,540 words) - 16:03, 24 May 2024
traditions surrounding the birth of children often included amulets to ward off the devil, the evil eye, or demons such as Lilith. So-called miracle rabbi...54 KB (6,564 words) - 22:00, 16 January 2024
India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan chashm-e-baddoor is used to ward off the evil eye. In the Indian subcontinent, the phrase nazar lag gai is used...8 KB (904 words) - 20:19, 21 May 2024
"Properly considering the robe, I use it: simply to ward off cold, to ward off heat, to ward off the touch of flies, mosquitoes, simply for the purpose...12 KB (1,293 words) - 09:54, 5 September 2023
people continue to light bonfires on Saint Walpurga's Eve in order to ward off evil spirits and witches. Others have historically made Christian pilgrimages...46 KB (5,417 words) - 21:18, 4 May 2024
balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th and 18th century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, ill fortune and bad spirits. The witch...7 KB (986 words) - 15:34, 9 February 2024
2014-11-26. Retrieved 2014-12-03. "No trespassing signs, fines used to ward off curious souls in search of Warren's Occult Museum | The Monroe Sun". themonroesun...10 KB (944 words) - 19:38, 6 May 2024
type of talisman is a Jewish folk custom which is practiced as a way to ward off misfortune which is brought about by the "evil eye" (Hebrew: עין הרע)....8 KB (810 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2024
contexts, this gesture has an apotropaic character, that is, a means to ward off a supernatural enemy, or it may be a sign of mockery, analogous to mooning...12 KB (1,237 words) - 19:28, 18 April 2024
Kilpeck in Herefordshire, England. The carvings may have been used to ward off death, evil and demons. Other grotesque carvings, such as gargoyles and...26 KB (3,359 words) - 15:57, 22 May 2024
thumb wedged in between two fingers. The gesture is most commonly used to ward off the evil eye, insult someone, or deny a request. It has been used at least...12 KB (1,641 words) - 04:49, 9 May 2024
when small bunches of fragrant flowers and herbs were worn at weddings to ward off evil spirits. During the 16th and 17th centuries, corsages and boutonnières...11 KB (1,170 words) - 22:29, 23 April 2024
Tiānlù. Bìxié (辟邪; bìxié; pi-hsieh; lit. "to ward off evil spirits"): The female of the species wards off evil. It is also believed that Bìxié have the...12 KB (1,515 words) - 18:15, 18 May 2024
Charvarius "Mooney" Ward (born May 16, 1996) is an American football cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played...31 KB (2,651 words) - 12:45, 24 May 2024
symptom of the plague, and posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing or coughing was a final fatal symptom...20 KB (2,304 words) - 11:27, 24 May 2024
- ward off (third-person singular simple present wards off, present participle warding off, simple past and past participle warded off) (transitive) To parry
- 1885-1900, Volume 59 Ward, John (1781-1837) by Alexander Gordon 733987Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 59 — Ward, John (1781-1837)1899Alexander
- Julia Ward Howe (27 May 1819 – 17 October 1910) was an American writer, poet, and social activist. Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms, To deck our girls
- William Dudley Ward is only twenty-three years old, but his grandfather, on his mother’s side, was the late Lord Esher; who, before he was Master of the