Of blue and purple and pale gold are the mantles that they wear, And for plumes they carry amulets that dangle high in air.
There had been in their family a very sacred heirloom in the form of an amulet or charm.
Thus doubly precious, I cherished them as holy amulets, made sacred by the living as well as the dead.
Commonly, these are described as thunderstones, amulets used as protection against the worst effects of the weather.
The passage in question belongs to the treatise on the mulberry, and involves the making of an amulet from a mulberry berry.
The pendant could well have been an amulet intended for the personal protection of the wearer.
