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apotropaic's Usage Examples:

associated with the traditional Jewish customs which could be understood as apotropaic: male circumcision, mezuzah and tefillin.

Amulets refer to any object which holds an apotropaic function.

Characteristically, the vampiress character is apotropaically handled on a Saturday.

It may have had an apotropaic purpose.

place went to 12-year old Sean Conley of Newark, California who missed "apotropaic".

Moralia of Plutarch, where "apotropaic nursery tales" about her are told by nursemaids to frighten little children into behaving.

touch wood (the usual phrase and action for speakers of English) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely.

(Sacrificial Calendar of Erchia) The nineteenth is always dedicated to purifications and apotropaic rites.

The act of lifting up one"s skirt to display the genitals can be an apotropaic device; it can, in circumstances of war, evoke the fear of the enemy.

is commonly said that their purpose was to keep evil spirits away (see apotropaic magic).

Singa is an apotropaic figure from the mythology of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia.

It is often recited as a practice of apotropaic magic to ward off jinn.

In Ancient Greece, the Gorgoneion (Greek: Γοργόνειον) was a special apotropaic amulet showing the Gorgon head, used most famously by the Olympian deities.

Synonyms:

lucky,

Antonyms:

unlucky, unpropitious,