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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sabre123, post: 9737922, member: 8258&quot;]This is completely out of my realm, but I stumbled on something similar (I could be, and probably am, WAY off here):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475497[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Fraisketten are strings of amuletic beads and other items, closely related structurally to rosaries. They are a distinctively Austro-Bavarian means of protection against ‘Frais’ – an ancient German term referring to all types of cramps, spasms, fits, convulsions and seizures, especially those associated with epilepsy, experienced during childhood. A Fraiskette chain combines items of devotionalia (such as crosses, pilgrimage medallions, reliquaries, breverl and bottles of holy oil), naturalia (such as various mineral beads, fossils, seeds and nuts, pieces of red coral, shells, teeth, mole’s feet, bird claws, polecat penis bones, stag beetle antlers and badger’s hair) and artificialia (such as coins and keys). They therefore represent uniquely personal amuletic safeguards and protections against childhood fevers, illustrative of local Catholic beliefs and perhaps recording family pilgrimages, syncretised with reverence for non-sacramental objects from country folk medicine traditions esteemed for their supposed prophylactic properties. Fraisketten were hung over the bedsteads of expectant mothers and young children, sometimes worn around the neck, and generally date from the 18th and 19th centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://folklore-society.com/event/fraisketten-or-convulsion-chains/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://folklore-society.com/event/fraisketten-or-convulsion-chains/" rel="nofollow">Source</a>--&gt;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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