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apotropaic
[ ap-uh-truh-pey-ik ]
adjective
- intended to ward off evil.
apotropaic
/ 藢忙辫蓹蕣迟谤蓹藞辫别瑟瑟办 /
adjective
- preventing or intended to prevent evil
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补辫顎卭路迟谤辞路辫补顎僫路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of apotropaic1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of apotropaic1
Example Sentences
Above his pitches for proprietary health-nut dietary blends, Johnson's slogan of "Don't die" hangs like an apotropaic talisman on his social media banners.
The most common type of apotropaic mark is the daisy wheel, or hexafoil, which is often a six-petal 鈥渇lower鈥 drawn with a pair of compasses.
The logic of substitution is common to folk magic around the world and might have been central to apotropaic magic, too.
A herm鈥檚 original apotropaic function as a statue to ward off evil is here colonized by traditional femininity 鈥 and now runs gleefully amok.
The "apotropaic" marks were scribed into the cave surface as they were thought to keep evil spirits coming from the underworld.
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