An interesting discovery

[damej]

During our whirlwind tour of Santiago de Compostela, the guide took us through the shopping district and pointed out the window of a jewelry store that specialized in items made of local jet.  Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of rosaries and scallop shells rendered in jet and silver.  However, they also had a number of amulets against the evil eye

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[arebekah]

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[eithni]

Huh. The ones I got were actually agate or carnelian or similar yellowish stone, not jet, but it's still an interesting potential source and it certainly makes more sense than any theory I have had about why one would have dozens of stone fists!