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 COLLECTANEA.

Notes on Spanish Amulets (Third Series).

(With Plate XV.)

The present series of notes is supplementary to the two series which appeared in the numbers of Folk-Lore for December, 1906, and March, 1913.^ Many of the specimens which are now de- scribed are of types referred to in one or the other of these earlier papers, and are here illustrated because of peculiarities in their design, — peculiarities which, in the case of amulets, while often merely fanciful introductions of their makers (or of their makers' predecessors), may often, in other cases, recall origins or affinities which would otherwise escape notice. The specimens are almost all obsolete in form, if not always, completely so in type. No information whatever as to their former purposes, beyond the statements as to the obvious fact of their being amulets, was obtained at the shops where the specimens were purchased ; in most instances, however, their specific intentions are obvious to the student. For the intentions of some of them I am able to refer to information contained in my earlier notes ; for an indica- tion of those of others I must refer, as before, to similar Italian forms.

Jet Bands.— Tht principal feature of Pla'te XV. is the series of four compound " fig " hands, of jet, each arranged for suspension. These hands are similar to those I have illustrated in Figs. 23 and 24, Plate V. (vol. xvii.), but differ from those, as amongst them- selves, in details.

Fig. I. A "fig" hand of jet, mounted with a silver cap attached to it by iron strips. Above the palm, in heavy openwork, is a heart,

1 Vol. xvii., pp. 454-71 ; vol. xxiv., pp. 63-74.