The earliest known use of the word: written in lines that lose one letter each time, forming a downward triangle, and worn round the neck.
Record, Folk and Modern are kept apart, and each one carries its source. Spotted a better source? Tell us.
In Liber Medicinalis, chapter 52, Serenus Sammonicus — physician to the emperor Caracalla — describes writing the word in lines that lose one letter each time, forming a downward triangle, to be worn round the neck. It is the earliest known use of the word. We do not repeat any health claim made for it.
Our sources do not cover how the triangle was used after Serenus. No early record — To verify.
We engrave all eleven lines exactly, from ABRACADABRA down to A. Nothing is shortened or rearranged.
It opens with the pencil construction, then follows the record, how people used it, and the piece we make today. Every fact in it comes from the sources on this page.
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