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APOTROPAIC [1 record]

Record 1 2017-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
DEF

Designed to avert or turn aside evil.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
DEF

Se dit d'un objet, d'une formule servant à détourner les influences maléfiques. (Dans l'antiquité gréco-romaine, le phallus, la main votive étaient des objets apotropaïques. On peut ranger encore dans cette catégorie le mauvais œil, aussi ancien, mais de signification encore actuelle.)

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