Stripped of their amulets and masks, they look like a group of poorly fed, impoverished farmers.

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There's also a wide-spread belief that the amulets and intimidating wooden masks the Mai Mai wear give them magic powers.

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As Thailand's best-known "influential person, " the local euphemism for underworld don, Somchai dresses to character in a loud Hawaiian shirt and heavy gold amulets.

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There are Plot Coupons amulets, swords, rings and such that must be collected in order for the protagonists to get to the end of formulaic commercial fantasy.

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Beneath a railway bridge, Swiss artist Franziska Furter's "Mojo" (2012), a colorful concoction of magic amulets, hangs like a chandelier, moving and tinkling with the wind.

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They carry amulets, clubs, and locally made hunting rifles.

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We hoard quotations like amulets.

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