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saphie

saphie

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Noun

saphie ‎(plural saphies)

A West African talisman or charm.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 12:
  These saphies were the repositories of fetishes, charms against calamity: a pickled ring finger was considered proof against the bite of the puff adder […].