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Horns of honour : and other studies in the by-ways of archaeology

Elworthy, Frederick Thomas, 1830-1907 · 1900 · London : J. Murray · 134 pictures

Horns of Honour is an 1900 London study by the folklorist Frederick Thomas Elworthy, published by J. Murray, on horns and related charms in religion and folk-lore. Its pictures show hands drawn as carved or modelled objects, with fingers raised in the horn gesture, many bound with cords or decorated with symbols. A designer might take from them the mano cornuto hand gesture and the apotropaic amulet forms, rendered in clean line engraving.

Horns (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Devil · Hand (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) · Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian

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