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All ancient objects were magical charms. (88:5.4)
- Since anything connected with the body could become a fetish, the earliest magic had to do with hair and nails. 88:5.1
- a world so filled with charms did much to destroy all personal ambition and initiative. 69:2.7 88:6.6
- The primitives believed that a ceremony of consecration caused the spirit to enter the image; likewise, when certain objects were blessed, they became charms. 88:2.4
- charms were employed to insure a happy and fertile marriage 83:4.4
- Charms and relics are impotent to heal disease, ward off disaster, or influence evil spirits; the belief in all such material means of influencing the spiritual world is nothing but gross superstition. 150:3.6
- Magical charms were concocted from a great variety of things: human flesh, tiger claws, crocodile teeth, poison plant seeds, snake venom, and human hair 88:5.2-4
- The ornamental type of personal effects originated in the wearing of charms. 69:9.10
- primitives rubbed charms on infections, then discarded them and supposedly experience a cure 90:4.5
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