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Stones with the word Abraxas engraved on them, and used as talismans. They were cut into symbolic forms combining a fowl’s head, a serpent’s body, and human limbs. (See Abracax.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.