0 an object worn because it is believed to protect against evil, disease, or unhappiness -- （戴在身上的）护身符，避邪物
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.
If the amulet turns out to be effective, one will then give more ample ' thanks ' to the marabout.
The pendant may have been a protective amulet worn by a member of the religious, or a funerary object.
It is afterwards given to the child as an amulet, and brings vitality and success in hunting.
These various drill marks have often been interpreted as means of suspension, leading to the assumption that the plaques were worn as pectorals, pendants, gorgets, or amulets.
Accompanying these secondary remains were discrete deposits of shell jewelry (a bivalve amulet and shell "tinklers," among others), carved-bone tubes, two jade beads, and five ceramic vessels.
