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Jbel Bani defense bracelet

Posted by Cordelia Donohoe on March 1, 2014 at 7:16pm

Just had to show this lovely Moroccan bracelet

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Alaa eddine SAGID March 6, 2014 at 11:19am

Lovely bracelet from he southern most oases of Morocco
Cordelia Donohoe March 6, 2014 at 5:05pm

yes, its wonderful, thank you Alaa. I like the Tuareg/Sahara type markings. I think its a little too delicate for a defense bracelet as the spikes would come off in a real fight!
Alaa eddine SAGID March 6, 2014 at 5:38pm

i have alwas despised the romantic idea of "defense bracelets" as usually widespread among eeference books....it could be a secondary opportunistic use for those heavy cast ones with the main purpose of such spikes or pruberance being the representation of the "phallus" as a sign of fertility and a vow for male descent!

just a thought

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