Catherine's rainbow imagery, for example, may have represented a bridge between divine and terrestrial spheres, but Capodieci suggests again that contemporary functions of such images appear conventional rather than as talismanic. Talismanic is a 'photogenic' dark bay horse with a large white blaze and four white stockings. He was bred by Darley Stud, which purchased his sire Medaglia d'Oro in 2009.

Amulet: Durga Amulet portraying the Hindu goddess Durga. VassilNatural amulets are of many kinds: stones, metals, teeth and claws of animals, bones, plants, and so on. Man-made amulets, equally varied, include religious medallions and small figurines. Among believers amulets are thought to derive power from their connection with natural forces, from religious associations, or from being made in a ritual manner at a favourable time.and other used natural amulets in burials, and so-called dating to about 25,000 bc may be among the earliest of man-made amulets. The MacGregor papyrus of lists 75 amulets. One of the commonest was the beetle, worn by the living and dead alike.

The ( q.v.) symbolized life—perhaps because it pushed a ball of dung that was identified with the sun and was believed to contain the beetle’s eggs, or perhaps because its hieroglyph was the same as that for the verb “to become”—and was thought to restore the dead person’s heart in the next world. In Egypt the magic formulas originally recited over amulets to give them their power were eventually inscribed and worn themselves.