volumes, appeared in March 1833. La Peau de chagrin consists of three sections: "Le Talisman" ("The Talisman"), "La Femme sans cœur" ("The Woman without...

feature of Roman wind chimes, from Pompeii A mezuzah An amulet from the Black Pullet grimoire Magical mirror with Zodiac signs Nez Perce talisman, made of...

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned...

to those of pre-Islamic Arabia. Individual jinn appear on charms and talismans. They are called upon for protection or magical aid, often under the leadership...

his own wife. As Fulcanelli describes in a strange letter he kept as a talisman about the completion of the Great Work – by someone who is presumably Basil...

Chez le père Lathuille and Plum Brandy, and Marcellin Desboutin, a painter and etcher. The café where they are taking their refreshment is the Café de la...

renewal. The symbol persisted from Egyptian into Roman times, when it frequently appeared on magical talismans, sometimes in combination with other magical...

Scipio (46 BC), Roman consul and military commander, stabbed himself L'Wren Scott (2014), American fashion designer, hanging Tony Scott (2012), English...

Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, romanized: Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer...

and ever in their career. Swedish hard rock band Talisman featuring onetime Journey frontman Jeff Scott Soto had a song called "Women, Whiskey and Songs"...

them if they stole the jewellery, which was misconstrued for a magical talisman. Two troopers of the Natal Native Horse, Abel and Rogers, as well the Zulu...

knowledge in oral form while using the Baybayin for secular purposes and talismans. The scholar Isaac Donoso claims that the documents written in the native...

215. Eric A. Ivison presented the paper "Charon’s Obol or Apotropaic Talisman? Coins in medieval Byzantine Graves" at a round table on ritual and ceremony...

work dealing with alchemy, talismans, and specific properties, which cites Hermes as its ultimate source. The Liber Hermetis de alchemia ("The Book of Hermes...

Machine Powell 2012, pp. 233–234. Roman & Roman 2010, p. 78. Norton 2013, p. 166. ἀράχνη, ἀράχνης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon...

used in medieval magic include, but are not limited to: various amulets, talismans, potions, as well as specific chants, dances, and prayers. Along with...

parody of Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. That year he received a commission from the grand duke of Tuscany Leopold – future Holy Roman Emperor...

remained with his final club to work on their bid to join MLS. As the talisman of the team Drogba contributed to the Ivory Coast qualifying for its first...

Shahab Nama by Qudratullah Shahab The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott (12th century, Third Crusade) El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato by Eduardo Mendoza Noli...

the "Palace of Underground Fire" where Soliman Ben Daoud controls the talismans that rule over the world. Vathek agrees and proceeds with the ritual that...

Internewscast. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020. Antoine de Baecque. "Le geste ultime de Karen Bach - Libération". Libération (in French). Archived...

Laozi (/ˈlaʊdzə/, Chinese: 老子), also romanized as Lao Tzu and various other ways, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese philosopher, author of the Tao...

Other suggestions for a definition of ’ōḇ include a familiar spirit, a talisman, or a wineskin, in reference to ventriloquism. In the Greek Septuagint...

own right. Mesopotamian peoples protected against her using amulets and talismans. She was believed to ride in her boat on the river of the underworld and...

suggested that London Stone was once regarded as London's "Palladium", a talismanic monument in which, like the original Palladium of Troy, the city's safety...

Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen, Hoa Hoi Vuong, Ngoc Trung Than, Vantha Talisman, Keo Souvannavong, Van Oanh Nguyen, Gerard Neth, Nhat Do, Thi Hai Vo, Thi...

Тарковского. Медиа-архив Андрей Тарковский" [Nikolai Grinko: Andrei Tarkovsky's Talisman]. tarkovskiy.su (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-05-10...

flowers down upon them. This style of work appears to be references to the Le Roman de la Rose poem about the pursuit of love and scaling the "Castle of Love"...

WorldCat, and the bibliographic work of Les Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA) and Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Historians of the Crusades...

by a flattened neck stump, sometimes with two large eyes. These may be talismans against sterility. The Halaf culture is characterized by circular structures...