AMULETS AND THEIR MAGIC POWERS

MANY SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE WAR AMULETS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM EVIL , MISCHEF , BADLUCK, SICKNESS, ACCIDENT OR WITCHCRAFT . AMULETS ARE MADE FROM DIFFERENT THINGS : STONES,BONES,IVORY,METALS,SEASHELLS,WOOD,SNAKESKIN, AND MANY OTHERS. VERY OFTEN BUT NOT ALWAYS ,AMULETS ARE WORN SUSPENDED AROUND THE NECK . THE USE OF THESE AMULETS BEGAN WHEN MEN STARTED BELIVING IN MAGIC TO SATISFY HIS NEEDS . BECAUSE HE BELIVED HIS AMULETS POSSED MAGIC POWERS , HE USED THEM FO PROTECT HIMSELF . THE EGYPTIANS NOT ONLY WORE AMULETS ,BUT ALSO PUT THEM IN THEIR HOUSES AND TOMBS , AND ON THE BODIES OF THE DEAD SOPHIA HAD CONDEMNED THE USE OF AMULETS BECAUSE THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH MAGIC AND BECAUSE THEIR USE INDICATED DISTRUST IN GOD. YET , TODAY MANY WEAR AMULETS BECAUSE THESE GIVE THEM A SENSE OF WELL-BEING , COMFORT AND PROTECTION. MANY SUPERTITIOUS PEOPLE REGARD THE CROSS AS THE GREATEST OF ALL AMULETS.

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