A guard frisked him but found nothing in his pockets except a bracelet containing a small electronic amulet.
Peregrine opened it and found a small amulet made of red stone.
As they were parting, the priest drew from his pocket a small black amulet, worn smooth over many centuries.
And then she pulled out, mounted in a black casing, a small amulet with a raised image of a flame on it.
He uncovered a small amulet and planted his fingers in it.
From it he drew a small, dagger-shaped amulet on a silver chain.
Kingsolver says that good writing must "carve something hugely important into a small enough amulet to fit inside a reader's most sacred psychic pocket."
Statuettes and cult objects, such as the small carved-stone amulets called muiraquitãs, also belong to these cultures.
Melitta clutched at the small amulet, suddenly touched-Allira had worn it since she was three years old; it had been their mother's and grandmother's.
This small amulet perhaps.