Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host, Deb Bowen. And I'm Samantha Faye.

We're so excited that you have joined us this week as we continue our journey through

an exploration of magic in all its many forms. And this week we're going to be talking about charms,

and emulets, and talismans, and fetishes, and so much more. So let's start off,

Shally, with talking about charms, probably so much a part of your life and your history growing up,

that you don't even think about them really. Forleaf Clovers, for example, symbols such as crosses

and horseshoes, the evil eye, the eye of Horace. You may know about those, and we live with them all

the time and don't even think about them. But what about various herbs and stones and ancient charms

from ancient cultures, such as the Chima Ruta or the Triskelyon? In this episode, we invite you to

think about the meaning and history behind charms, emulets, and talismans, and offer you some tips

for creating your own. It's a math and I both have definitions here that we've gathered about

these words, and I'm going to start and then I'm going to turn it over to Samantha. The words

charm, talisman, amulet, and fetish are often used interchangeably, although they are not the same.

According to Elizabeth Pepper, who is the author of a wonderful magical little book called the ABC

of Magic Charms, charms refers to an incontation, a verse sung over an object to imbue it with magical

power. So in other words, a charm is something you stay, according to Elizabeth Pepper. The word

talisman derives from either the Greek word, and you all have to bear with me here, tell a smoth

or the Arabic word talisman, both of which denote a marked object over which a sacred

right has been performed. Once the object is consecrated for one specific purpose, it can be worn

or carried or placed in a specific place. So a talisman is something that has been sanctified in

some way, made sacred, but an object. And an ambilet comes from the Latin word meaning to do a way with

and describes an ornament worn as a protective shield against evil. So an ambilet is something,

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