 The Last of Her Kind
"Well, amulets are just kind of a fancy word for necklaces." Especially when it was a muggle who was doing the talking, Adrienne thought. "But in the magical world they're also usually imbued with some sort of protective spell or charm or something." She'd heard of amulets with built-in shield spells, ones that could protect you from physical harm, and even ones that did silly things like make you turn orange or give you the illusion of looking like you had cat ears.
As for their usefulness in Ancient Egypt, Adrienne didn't know all that much. After she made sure that nobody was looking at her, she turned her head sideways and slowly opened her History of Magic textbook to the chapter on Egypt, reading a few lines quickly and then then closing it and raising her hand. "In Ancient Egypt, they were often put inside the bandages of a mummy so that when the dead person went on to the afterlife they would have whatever deity with them for protection." |