International audience Photoluminescence spectroscopy is a key method to monitor defects in semiconductors from nanophotonics to solar cell systems. Paradoxically, its great sensitivity to small variations of local environment becomes a handicap for heterogeneous systems, such as are encountered in...

In West Africa, men meet the intimate needs of the population by receiving them for consultation. The solutions they offer include, but not exclusively, the production of writing talismans. Their origin is not in Africa, but in the Arab Muslim world. The most common models are those of al-Bûne (m. 1...

Billet of the research book ‘The world of djinns’ (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the workshop ‘The words, the sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’. Saturday, 8 July 2017 takes place a one-day workshop under the title ‘The words, sorts: the lexicon of magic in Muslim worlds’, organise...

Resumindo o que fica exposto, vê-se que a figa, de começo, foi gesto licencioso, com plena significação física, o qual fazia desviar de pessoas, animais e cousas má-olhadura, que se tinha por causadora de graves danos. Depois o gesto tornou-se propriamente apotropaico, isto é, com significação mágic...

The use of azabache, as an element of personal decoration and amulete, dates back to the first pre-historical societies. This raw material is relatively small in nature and has become, from a very early stage, a spoiled object, both ornamental and symbolic. Unlike elsewhere, in the Iberian Peninsula...

more than a few days to take advantage of the curious exhibition: the art of the collection proposed by the Oise Archaeological Museum. What is the commonality between a tailed flint, a waffle currency, beetles, Senegalese marabutic amulettes and picard sacred trees? All these heterogeneous objects...

The historical process from the Second Constitutional Era to the Republic (1908-1923) is a period of deep social and cultural impact in Ottoman-Turkish society. During this time, changes and transformations in social life were the subject of literary works; the mentality of the period, the mindset,...

‘benzence’ is an ancient way of treating a number of diseases, which has been used in Europe since the Middle Ages. In Brazil, benzedores emerged from the 17th century onwards. Interpretation of knowledge, traditional use of plant resources and handling by walking, root and midwifery are a source of...

Among the materials related to the early Middle Ages in the Carpathian-Dniester region, which have been discovered during archaeological excavations and reconnaissance, as well as among chance finds there are bronze amulets depicting a rider on a horse. The area of distribution of these bronze figur...

In some Greek and Latin testimonies of Late Antiquity, several stones are used as core material in the making of different objects; these objects are described as jewels (body ornament) and as amulets (powerful objects). The texts in which the making of these garments is told include a divine empowe...

The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a collection of magic-religious formulas, whose aim was to aid the deceased on his way to a happy life in the hereafter. Beginning mainly in the New Empire, this funerary composition is attested to on the shrouds, coffins, papyri, the walls of the tombs, fune...

Recently, many studies have been carried out in order to introduce and keep alive Turkish culture. Restoration (renewal and conservation), documentation, protection, promotion and exhibition of art works have great importance. For many reasons such as industrialization, development of industry, incr...

This research started with the idea that many Japanese are not concerned with religious status. The Ippen monks in the 13th century made the concept of religion simpler for Japanese society through the use of amulets as religious symbols that were finally accepted by Japanese society. This study aim...

The article is devoted to archaeological research of new discovered burial structures in the form of catacomb at the Kylyshzhar cemetery (1st century BC – 3rd century AD), in which artifacts were found similar to the monuments of the Sarmatian appearance. They include a number of ritual actions and...

This study intended to compare Filipino <em>komiks</em> from its film adaptation. In particular, it explores the form and content in <em>Pedro Penduko</em> (1954) and the film adaptation, <em>Pedro Penduko, Episode II: The Return of the Comeback</em> (2000) using the Formalistic Approach in literary...

<span>The article is devoted to contemporary creative interpretation of Udmurt traditional sacred symbols. One of the most important sacred images in the Udmurt culture was the image of the Great Mother (Goddess Generic) – ancestor of all life on earth. Breast metal ornaments (plaques) with its symb...

Ancient peoples have been made, including the ancient Egyptian and Nubian to Akrthm unless exert a worldly, not heeded Bisknhm, where they made from milk and clay, but they have spared no effort in building cemeteries Vtjera good stone, rock solid, because they were praising immortality house and th...

Contrary to theology or philosophy, occult sciences have often been discussed with dedain and contempt in the leading and learned tradition of the 19th century and early xxth. However, these sciences were very important, especially among elites, as demonstrated by the sponsorship exercised by calipe...

This contribution aims to highlight some aspects of Eracle Dattilo, a daimonic figure of the Greek pantheon linked to Beozia and a Phoyic cultural backbone. Pausania informed us of the existence of places of worship in his honour in Tespie and Micalesso, stating that this figure was linked to some s...

In West Africa, men meet the intimate needs of the population by receiving them for consultation. The solutions they offer include, but are not limited to, the production of writing talismans. Their origin is not in Africa, but in the Arab Muslim world. The most common models are those of al-Bûne (m...

Following a multidisciplinary approach combining social sciences (archaeology, history of techniques, examination of ancient texts) and chemistry (materials science, experimental metallurgy, analytical chemistry), our research aims to reconstruct the evolution of lost-wax casting techniques, from th...

Billet of the research book “The world of jinns” (djinns.hypotheses.org), programme of the colloquium Islamic occultism in theory and practice. From 6 to 8 January 2017, a colloquium takes place in Headley Lecture Theatre at Oxford University “Islamic occultism in theory and practice”. It is organis...

Several objects bearing unusual motifs have recently been recovered during salvage excavations and surveys of sites in Israel dated to the 6th– 5th millennia BC. In the southern Levantine examples (Hagoshrim, Neve Yam and Ein Zippori), these motifs appear on bone objects and stone palettes in strata...

peer reviewed When the well-known “House of the Ephebe” was excavated in Pompeii, a statuary group composed of four bronze figurines was found. Those small statues are now known as “Placentarii”, namely “pastry cooks.” They were given this name because they were thought selling their products placed...

In West Africa, men meet the intimate needs of the population by receiving them for consultation. The solutions they offer include, but not exclusively, the production of writing talismans. Their origin is not in Africa, but in the Arab Muslim world. The most common models are those of al-Bûne. The...