What is "talismen"

Usage examples of "talismen".

But if you enter a given chamber a third time, your trail ends there, and you must take whatever is in it no matter how many talismen you have left, and if you happen to be out of talismen, whatever is in that chamber takes you.

The flat was filled with talismen and mystical paraphernalia, found-art, totems, prayer-wheels, trompe l'oeil wall paintings, mandalas and plants, greenery everywhere, thick green stems bursting from all the corners of the lounge, explosions of red petals, terracotta pots of every size.

Of the two, jumbies were less fearsome--evil spirits that could be kept at bay with jumbie beads, which were talismen or lucky charms.