Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets, Helmsman…

“Now that I have this piglet talisman... who knows what I might find the poor judgment to do?”

— Ginn Hale

“Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn’t so completely on my own.”

— Susan Jane Gilman

Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

— Rosa Campbell Praed

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you…

— Aleister Crowley

“I hold the final piece. And it is indeed . . . a talisman.”

— Dan Brown

“When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.”

— Stephen King

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

— Rita Dove

The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how…

— Denis Johnston

“Christianity — and that is its greatest merit — has somewhat mitigated that brutal German love of war, but it could not destroy it.…

— Heinrich Heine

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

— David Mamet

“He lifted a hand and turned and went on. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a…

— Cormac McCarthy

“When you have never known a thing except to dream, it becomes more than a talisman.”

— Robert Jordan

“This one’s mine. I’ve claimed him. And he’s wearing my talisman to keep him safe.”

— Leta Blake

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a…

— Mladen Đorđević