![“I found itinerant hawkers of curios selling the hippocampus, tied in bundles of three with red worsted. These were sold for luck, a poor survival of a very old and grander legend…[in Venice] I found that the wives of fishermen, nursing babies, kept a dried sea horse on their breasts to facilitate the flow of milk… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat [the gondola] is evolved from the sea horse.” Edward Lovett, ‘Magic in Modern London’, p. 87Pink glass sea horse, used as a charm.Courtesy Pitt Rivers Museum [1985.51.541]
Part of the Charmed Life Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo10hZV571qzi4jfo1_400.jpg)
“I found itinerant hawkers of curios selling the hippocampus, tied in bundles of three with red worsted. These were sold for luck, a poor survival of a very old and grander legend…[in Venice] I found that the wives of fishermen, nursing babies, kept a dried sea horse on their breasts to facilitate the flow of milk… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat [the gondola] is evolved from the sea horse.” Edward Lovett, ‘Magic in Modern London’, p. 87
Pink glass sea horse, used as a charm.Courtesy Pitt Rivers Museum [1985.51.541]
Part of the Charmed Life Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London
“I found itinerant hawkers of curios selling the hippocampus, tied in bundles of three with red worsted. These were sold for luck, a poor survival of a very old and grander legend…[in Venice] I found that the wives of fishermen, nursing babies, kept a dried sea horse on their breasts to facilitate the flow of milk… I am very much inclined to believe that the curious white metal prow of this remarkable boat [the gondola] is evolved from the sea horse.” Edward Lovett, ‘Magic in Modern London’, p. 87
Pink glass sea horse, used as a charm.Courtesy Pitt Rivers Museum [1985.51.541]
Part of the Charmed Life Exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London
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