Amulets |
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Amulet against plague |
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The "Benediktuspfennig" is an amulet which should help the believer against everyday dangers such as hailstorms, poisoning, fever, plague, gallstones, evil spirits, witches, the devil, but also at births and on the deathbed ...
"Such amulets were useful specially in persons working around plague victims" (Joseph Patrick Byrne, Daily Life During the Black Death, Greenwood Press 2006 p.53). .
For details please sea the german version. |