fascinum

• [121] The object within the case was, as Pliny tells us, a res turpicula as a rule,[122] and this may remind us that a fascinum was carried in the car of the triumphator as medicus invidiae_, to use Pliny's pregnant expression. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• "Simulque profert scorteum fascinum quod, ut olio et minuto pipere, atque —  Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
• The fascinum was worn suspended from the necks of women, and was supposed to possess magical powers; hence, to _fascinate_. —  Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
• That the worship of the fascinum was in vogue during the eighth century [Y] in Italy and in other countries under the religious jurisdiction of the Pope, the following from the _Judicia Sacerdotalia —  Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
• Criminibus_, clearly indicates: "If any one has performed incantation to the _fascinum_, or any incantation whatever, except one who chaunts the —  Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire

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