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- In ancient Roman religion and magic, the fascinus or fascinum was the embodiment of the divine phallus. The word can refer to phallus effigies and amulets...
- tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic figure or of a fascinum, a magico-religious phallus thought to ward off the evil eye and bring...
- was also an apotropaic symbol for the ancient Romans. These are known as fascinum.[citation needed] A similar use of phallic representations to ward off...
- ISBN 978-0-451-21409-6. A Dictionary of Gr**** and Roman Antiquities (1890), Fascinum Connell, Tim (9 January 1998). "The City's golden gr****hopper". Times Higher...
- was ubiquitous in ancient Roman culture, particularly in the form of the fascinum, a phallic charm. The ruins of Pompeii produced bronze wind chimes (tintinnabula)...
- the same time, the phallus was displa**** ubiquitously in the form of the fascinum, a magic charm thought to ward off malevolent forces; it became a customary...
- gr****hopper before the Acropolis of Athens for protection. The fascinus or fascinum, from the Latin verb fascinare "to cast a spell" (the origin of the English...
- why everyone from soldiers to infants to triumphing generals needed a fascinum, a remedy against the evil eye, an antidote, something that would make...
- sinew grows,     more constant than a new tree clings to the hills.") fascinum or fascinus, which meant a phallic image or amulet in the form of a ****...
- That accomplished, the priestess reveals a "leather ****" (scorteum fascinum), and the women apply various irritants to him, which they use to prepare...