Crossword clues for talisman
talisman
- One's lucky having time with Angelo Dundee?
- Speaker in the first half is fellow showing charm
- It may work wonders in Malta's new constitution
- Dutch explorer capturing large island fetish
- The initial piece captures old boxer's charm
- Good luck charm
- Protective charm
- Scarab, e.g
- Magical charm
- Stephen King/Peter Straub book, with "The"
- Scott's penny
- Object believed to have magic powers
- Magical stone
- Juju or grigri
- Lucky charm
- It works like a charm
- Magic charm
- Wizard's need
- Scarab, e.g.
- A trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil
- Amulet
- Charm thought to bring good luck
- Good luck token
- Magical object
- Charm? Some sentimentalism anyway
- Charm that brings good luck?
- Charm of various animals after first bit of training
- Endless chat is fellow’s charm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Talisman \Tal"is*man\, n.; pl. Talismans. [Sp., from Ar. tilism, tilsam, a magical image, pl. tilsam[=a]n, fr. Gr. ? tribute, tax, LGr., an initiation, incantation, from ? to complete, perform, to play taxes, to make perfect, to initiate, especially in the mysteries, fr. ? completion, end.]
A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "magical figure cut or engraved under certain observances," from French talisman, in part via Arabic tilsam (plural tilsaman), from Byzantine Greek telesma "talisman, religious rite, payment," earlier "consecration, ceremony," originally in ancient Greek "completion," from telein "perform (religious rites), pay (tax), fulfill," from telos "end, fulfillment, completion" (see tele-). The Arabic word also was borrowed into Turkish, Persian, Hindi. Related: Talismanic; talismanical.
Wiktionary
n. A magical object worn for protection ward off ill will, or the supernatural, or to confer the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or power(s).
WordNet
n. a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to be a protection against evil [syn: amulet]
Wikipedia
Talisman: The Magical Quest Game is a fantasy-themed adventure board game for two to six players, originally designed and produced by Games Workshop and now published by Fantasy Flight Games.
The game was first released in 1983 and has gone through several revisions. The Second Edition was available longer than the Third Edition. The Third Edition and some of the Expansion Sets are loosely connected to Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. Though the game has been out of print intermittently for years at a time, it is currently available in the most recent revision, the revised Fourth Edition (2008).
A talisman is an object which is purported to possess certain magical properties.
Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen) is a superhero featured in the publications of Marvel Comics.
Talisman were a Swedish hard rock band characterized by an international melodic/powerful sound.
Talisman is the self-titled first studio album by hard rock band Talisman, released in 1990 through Airplay/Vinylmania. It has been reissued three times: first in 1993 through Dino Music; followed by a remastered edition in 2003 through Dino/Empire Records, containing a bonus disc with demos and live recordings from 1990; and once again on September 12, 2012, as a deluxe Digipak edition with further bonus material.
Talisman, a board game by Games Workshop, has been attempted to be made into a video game several times since its introduction in 1983. Two versions have been officially released. One attempt was abandoned and an unauthorised version was released before being removed by request.
Talisman is a series of four children's books written by Allan Frewin Jones and published in 2005. The main characters are Olivia (Olly) Christie and Josh Welles who live with Olly's father and Josh's brother, who are archæologists, and the plot concerns the hunt for the 'talismans of the moon'.
Although there are only four books currently in the series, there are more than four of the 'Talismans of the Moon'.
Talisman is an album by New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith released in 1995.
Talisman was the self-titled first studio album by hard rock band Talisman, originally released in 1990 through Airplay/Vinylmania. It has been reissued three times: first in 1993 through Dino Music/Empire Records; followed by a remasteredition in 2003 through Rock Treasures, containing a bonus disc with demos and live recordings from 1990; and This "Deluxe Edition" was released on September 12, 2012, packaged in a Digipak with further bonus material and remastering.
A talisman is an object which is believed to contain certain magical or sacramental properties which would provide good luck for the possessor or possibly offer protection from evil or harm.
According to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a magical order active in the United Kingdom during the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a talisman is "a magical figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. In the construction of a talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as possible, so to represent the universal forces that it should be in exact harmony with those you wish to attract, and the more exact the symbolism, the easier it is to attract the force."
Usage examples of "talisman".
The marchioness sat down on her sofa, and making me to do the like she asked me if I was acquainted with the talismans of the Count de Treves?
I spared little time away from that book, and studied in it incessantly the ways and windings of magic, till I could hold communication with Genii, and wield charms to summon them, and utter spells that subdue them, discovering the haunts of talismans that enthral Afrites and are powerful among men.
The virtue claimed for that piece of parchment by the man who had sold it to me was that it insured its lucky possessor the love of all women, but I trust my readers will do me the justice to believe that I had no faith whatever in amorous philtres, talismans, or amulets of any kind: I had purchased it only for a joke.
She knelt stiffly before Ashake and spread it out, sitting back then on her heels as the girl, making slow work of it, rolled the talisman into a tight bundle.
Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.
Attached to the belt by a loop was an ivory-handled flint knife in a rawhide sheath, and suspended from another loop, the lower section of a hollow black aurochs horn, a drinking cup that was a talisman of the Aurochs Hearth.
Vetch noted without surprise that Baken wore a hawk-eye talisman made, not of the usual pottery, but one like Haraket sported, cast from silver and inlaid with enamel.
Added to that, he had to find an ancient magic talisman before the elfling did, and to do that, he would have to search for it in Bodach, a city teeming with undead, while at the same time maintaining observation of the elfling and the priestess.
O Queen, which in bygone years was given to me as a talisman by a certain divine priestess whom I saved in battle, that its virtues might recover me of wounds which I received in the battle.
In the mean time, and until I should have a greater happiness, I was glad to see that my money, that magic talisman, and my good conduct, obtained me a consideration much greater than I could have hoped to obtain either through my position, or from my age, or in consequence of any talent I might have shewn in the profession I had adopted.
After breakfast was over I told him in a serious voice that if he would give me a free hand I could cure him, as he was not suffering from sciatica but from a moist and windy humour which I could disperse my means of the Talisman of Solomon and five mystic words.
Diana Daker moved to stand close beside her husband, who was hugging his gun to his chest like a talisman.
Was the weapon he carried, the one Rimmer Dall had given up so easily, the talisman he sought or a fake?
Park, how they had met the Mole, how they had determined to go back down into the Pit a final time to gain possession of the Sword, how he had encountered Rimmer Dall within the vault and been handed what was said to be the ancient talisman with no struggle at all, how Coll had been lost, and finally how Damson and he had been running and hiding throughout Tyrsis ever since.
Voices have permission from me to use the talismans in descrying and overhearing certain events taking place around the world.