Amulets

The charms of Sardinia refer to religious traditions and to widespread medical, agrarian, mineralogical and naturalistic knowledge and still an important part of the complex of popular knowledge on the island. The analysis of the amulets reveals a world of men and women who know and are close to the complex of the universe, to the natural elements, to the plant and mineral world.
The charms of Sardinia refer to religious traditions and to widespread medical, agrarian, mineralogical and naturalistic knowledge and still an important part of the complex of popular knowledge on the island.

The analysis of the amulets reveals a world of men and women who know and are close to the complex of the universe, to the natural elements, to the plant and mineral world. They talk and bargain a bit with nature, they do not feel that they are dominating it but they consider themselves part of it — and not even the strongest — and they invoke its help. Nature, whose greatness is recognized, which offers remedies and answers to man's weakness in the face of the difficult trials of living, is then associated with the complex of Christian religiosity.
Sardinian objects connected to magical-protective practices and expectations are for the most part assimilable to jewelry, due to the presence of precious materials (silver, coral, and, in a very small amount, gold), associated with organic and inorganic materials such as fossil stones, amber, giavazzo, shells, teeth, wood, fabrics.

The largest collection of charms in Sardinia is kept in the Museum of Popular Life and Traditions in Nuoro. Other important collections are in the National Museum “G. A. Sanna” in Sassari, in the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Rome, in the Giuseppe Bellucci Collection at the National Archaeological Museum of Perugina, in the “Luigi Cocco” Collection of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Cagliari.

Amulets

Consult the file of the Museum of Sardinian Life and Folk Traditions in Nuoro
Consult the file of the National Museum “G. A. Sanna

” in Sassari

Update

18/9/2023 - 17:05