{"topic":"talisman","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-talisman","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Talisman","normalized_title":"talisman","slug":"talisman","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"TALISMAN, a magical charm. The word is often used as a term synonymous with amulet (g.v.), but strictly should be applied to an inanimate object which is supposed to possess a supernatural Capacity of conferring benefits or powers, an amulet being that which protects or wards off evil (see MAGIC). The most common form which the talisman took in medieval or later times was that of a disk of metal or stone engraved with astrological figures, or with magical formulae, of which Abraxas (g.v.) and Abracadabra (q.v.) are the most familiar. The word is derived through the Spanish from Arab. tilsamdn, plural of tilsam, an adaptation of Gr. TeXtoywi, payment, outlay (from Tt\\eiv, to accomplish), used in Late Gr. of an initiation or mystery and in Med. Gr. of a charm.","body_html":"<p>TALISMAN, a magical charm. The word is often used as a term synonymous with amulet (g.v.), but strictly should be applied to an inanimate object which is supposed to possess a supernatural Capacity of conferring benefits or powers, an amulet being that which protects or wards off evil (see MAGIC). The most common form which the talisman took in medieval or later times was that of a disk of metal or stone engraved with astrological figures, or with magical formulae, of which Abraxas (g.v.) and Abracadabra (q.v.) are the most familiar. The word is derived through the Spanish from Arab. tilsamdn, plural of tilsam, an adaptation of Gr. TeXtoywi, payment, outlay (from Tt\\eiv, to accomplish), used in Late Gr. of an initiation or mystery and in Med. Gr. of a charm.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v26","page_range_label":"Vol. 26, pp. 372-372","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/page/n401/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"372","label":"p. 372","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_0402.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri26chisrich_0402.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/page/n401/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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