apotropaic

This may also be another quality that emphasizes the apotropaic effect of the roof.

The decorative function, in time, prevailed over the apotropaic one.

They served an apotropaic function, designed to ward off evil.

Because of this, the ritual vessels are not only apotropaic but useful to the living as well.

The ash was believed to have healing and apotropaic powers.

He learned these apotropaic methods from his wife, although he doesn't plan to tell her what he's done.

In most forms, the lion has no apotropaic meaning and was merely decorative.

Religion was possibly apotropaic; specifically, it may have involved sympathetic magic.

This is because they are seen as apotropaic, and supposedly ward off evil spirits.

This was so that they could become - that splendid word - apotropaic.

Like any man of sense, he wore an apotropaic amulet on a chain around his neck.

In Roman art, apotropaic imagery was a common theme.

The eyes are assumed to have served an apotropaic (evil-averting) function.

Some of the straw may be set aside and used in apotropaic practices in the coming year.

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

All the derivatives from vuk were regarded as apotropaic names.

Erotic scenes like these had an apotropaic purpose to keep demons away from the tomb.

These were apotropaic meaning they were intended to ward off evil.

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

The nineteenth is always dedicated to purifications and apotropaic rites.

Various plants are said to have apotropaic qualities, notably Mountain Ash.

The rowan was said to be apotropaic, that splendid word meaning "able to ward off evil".

At some cantons of the tower are the masks apotropaic against hexes.

Bells are still thought to possess apotropaic powers.