Fetishes
You can call them fetishes, charms, amulets, talismans or simply good luck pieces, virtually every culture has them. In contemporary Euro-American culture such items as a rabbit's foot for portable good luck or a St. Christopher medal for safety when traveling are only two of the many times we hope such symbols will help us all in an uncertain world. Most of the fetishes created today might best be called "carvings" because they are made as art objects, however, they can become true fetishes if properly blesses and assembled with other ceremonial items.