Word: amulet
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Evita's political and personal enemies also cannot forget her, and her corpse becomes an amulet of power. Martinez implies that Evita was not regarded as a thinking and feeling human being, but rather as a national treasure whose thoughts and emotions were defined by her subjects...
...eight years, followers fruitlessly scoured the sect's treasure house and monastery in Rumtek, India, for clues; pressure mounted on the four high lamas acting as interim regents. Finally, a regent named Tai Situ had a brainstorm. For 13 years, he had worn a prayer amulet given to him by the late leader, which he had never opened. Now, he says, "it suddenly struck me, the message could be here!" And lo, it was; and conveniently specific too: the child would be found "to the north in the east of a land of snow ((Tibet))/ A country where divine thunder...