How To Use Apotropaic In A Sentence
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Maybe it's an apotropaic gesture, maybe one writes to ward off death.
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A circumambulation is a ritual which can be performed in different contexts: apotropaic, cathartic, and as rite of aggregation.
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`Called PVS ," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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These deviant beings, placed in the holiest part of the church, may well serve an apotropaic function; yet again, they embody models in nature to be avoided.
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Was his extravagant creative production an apotropaic ritual that ultimately failed in its aim, or did the procession of his creature, so ferocious, but with a tinge of pathos to it, prove somehow overwhelming for him?
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The term “apotropaic” is a broad term referring to something intended to ward off evil, whereas the word “magic” in this case, simply refers to any ritualized behavior believed by its practitioners to be efficacious, that is, effective. [
Archive 2007-01-01
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The pattern of going to the spas was the attempt of mostly healthy individuals to undertake a prophylactic cure or to make an apotropaic gesture towards disease and be seen spending rather large sums of money doing this.
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An amulet shaped like a turtle, a creature of darkness, took the form of the very entity its wearer wished to avoid and thus acted apotropaically.
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`Called PVS," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Her vigorous position, with one knee down and one up, coupled with the wings on her ankles, is illustrative of flight; her huge eyes and lolling tongue are apotropaic.
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The belief is especially prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean, where apotropaic amulets and talismans are commonly sold as protection against the evil eye.
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Of the many apotropaic symbols presented in the exhibition, the most widespread is the distinctive bamada, a headgear identified as a symbol of the Komo, a religious institution with far-reaching influence in Bamana culture.
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Indeed, at least one of our canonical psalms was used for such “apotropaic purposes,” that is, to counteract evil.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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Amulets of flies appear from the earliest Dynasties, worn either apotropaically, to ward off the attentions of the insect by its amuletic image, or to endow its wearer by sympathetic magic with the insect's fertility since flies are remarkable for the huge numbers in which they breed.
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We can conclude that the incised patterns of the kunda and dibu bells, like those of the whisk, combine aesthetic astonishment with apotropaic function.
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Before collectivisation in the 1930s destroyed the traditional social pattern of village life, the peasant wedding was a complex rite of passage which included many apotropaic rituals.
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But as we shall see, the ‘feminine’ image so necessary to lyric's apodeixis reemerges in the ekphrasis as an apotropaic image: one which is both necessary to the epic project and marginalized by it.
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These names are considered to have apotropaic power to protect the new-born from the evil eye.
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The apotropaic powers of Arabic letters, phrases, verses, and writing themselves are central to Mouride belief systems and, indeed, Sufi mysticism more generally.
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There is an unformulated suspicion, in short, that there is an apotropaic element in the motivation for prosecution, fear of allegations of inequality in procedure that might be made by the media or by parliamentarians.
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But the term "apotropaic" is generally used of expulsive ceremonies in which a whole community takes part.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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In Italy, this gesture is simply called ‘le corna’ (the horns) and is apotropaic when the fingers lie horizontally or point down, and is an insult when the fingers point up.
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Looking through the exhibition checklist for the show (see previous post) at the Corning Museum of Glass, I came across the term "apotropaic", referring to "objects such as amulets and talismans or other symbols intended to 'ward off evil' or 'avert or combat evil.'" [wiki] The term apotrope comes from the Greek meaning "to turn away", and seems to express itself a great deal in eye symbology.
Archive 2007-09-01
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In the linguistic world of the ancient Greeks, it was often applied apotropaically, in other words with full awareness that the subject in reality embodied the exact opposite of the stated meaning, in this case ‘good’.
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Linda Seidel has shown, for instance, that Van Eyck's famous Arnolfini portrait is best understood as something like a marriage contract, and the "cave canem" inscription on the fierce dog mosaics at Pompeii (often cited by Gombrich as examples of "apotropaic" imagery) seems redundant in view of the image.
Notes, Mitchell, "Ekphrasis and the Other"
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The griffins at the ends of the sarcophagus are mythical monsters that preside apotropaically as guardians over the deceased.
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It is the same with the difficult words that sprinkle his prose - 'metaleptic', 'transumptive', 'apotropaic', 'chrestomathy'.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also notes that the motifs on these objects had apotropaic roles designed to protect their owners against status-degradation.
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The carving which induces the magical substitution has not only a sheltering (or passive, apotropaic) role to play.
Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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In fact most European magic was apotropaic, seeking to prevent, to protect, to repel.
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The puppy could also be used apotropaically, as in the Ritual of Huwarlu, in which a puppy is left in the bedchamber of the king and queen overnight to protect them from evil while at the same time a figurine of a puppy is set on the door bolt to make sure that the evil does not return through the door.
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What is odd about Achilles' shield in this context, however, is that it does not contain an apotropaic image, but an encyclopedic vision of the Homeric world, filled with narrative scenes rather like those we find on Keats's urn.
Ekphrasis and the Other
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Inasmuch as literary wounds take on the role of ‘talking cures,’ so too is storytelling apotropaic: it has the power to avert evil influence or ill luck.
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In a sense, the apophatic call for judgment is an apotropaic imagining of judgment in the anthropomorphic terms available to us, inviting God to shatter such expectations in the gracious enactment of God's judgment.
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The Southwark intaglio could indicate a Chnoubis, or Gorgon, a type of head which was well used in Late Antiquity as an apotropaic device whose protective power concerned the abdomen.
