The horseshoe brings luck and has apotropaic meaning.
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Apotropaic
//ˌæpətɹəˈpeɪ.ɪk//
Synonyms for "apotropaic" (3 found)
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12 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَعَوُّذِيّ adj (intended to ward off evil)
Catalan
1 entries- apotropaic adj (intended to ward off evil)
Dutch
1 entries- kwaadafwerend adj (intended to ward off evil)
French
1 entries- apotropaïque adj (intended to ward off evil)
German
1 entries- apotropäisch adj (intended to ward off evil)
Irish
1 entries- apatrópaech adj (intended to ward off evil)
Italian
1 entries- apotropaico adj (intended to ward off evil)
Japanese
1 entries- 厄払いの adj (intended to ward off evil)
Polish
2 entries- apotropaiczny adj (intended to ward off evil)
- apotropeiczny adj (intended to ward off evil)
Portuguese
1 entries- apotropaico adj (intended to ward off evil)
Welsh
1 entries- gwrthfelltithiol adj (intended to ward off evil)
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Wormwood [...] was associated with the rites of St. John's Eve, when a crown of the plant was made from its sprays for apotropaic purposes, to ward of malefic spirits.
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A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force.
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In earlier generations scholars reacted by removing many of these objects from public view, putting them in the ‘Secret Cabinet’ of the museum at Naples or otherwise under wraps. […] More recently the fashion has been to deflect attention from their sexuality by referring to them as ‘magical’, ‘apotropaic’ or ‘averters of the evil eye’.
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