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Symbols for every wish

Pick what you’re wishing for, then where in the world you’d like the symbol to come from. Every card shows its earliest record.

14 symbols from Western & Southern Europe
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Roman Empire & Europe · Against the darkSATOR squarePompeii graffito, before AD 62Pendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price
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Roman Empire · Against the darkABRACADABRA triangleSerenus Sammonicus, Liber Medicinalis, ch. 52 — 2nd–early 3rd c. ADPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For safe travelsSt ChristopherPatron saint of travellersStory card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For calm & sleepSt Dymphna13th-century life of the saintStory card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For study & examsJoseph of Cupertino17th-century life of the saintStory card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · Against envyFigaSpanish coral figa, V&A, 19th centuryPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For a new jobJourneyman’s KundschaftKundschaft with a view of Zeitz, about 1800Story card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · Against envyMano ficoItalian figa, Science Museum, 1850–1920Story card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For a new jobSt Joseph the WorkerFeast of St Joseph the Worker, 1 May 1955Story card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For your careerCompagnon’s cane and coloursUNESCO Representative List, 2010Story card from £2.99 Sample price
No early record
Western & Southern Europe · Against envyCornicelloNo dated early record of the horn itselfPendant from £28 · story card £8 Sample price
No early record
Western & Southern Europe · For calm & sleepKomboloiNo early record of the worry-bead useStory card from £2.99 Sample price
No early record
Western & Southern Europe · For safe travelsMaltese luzzu eyeNo early recordStory card from £2.99 Sample price
Western & Southern Europe · For good healthRod of AsclepiusStaff of the Greek god of medicineStory card from £2.99 Sample price

We describe what each symbol has meant and how people used it, with sources. We don’t promise what it will do.