They were often treated as actual fertility charms.

It has been suggested that concealed shoes served as some kind of fertility charm.

There is indeed a fertility charm to bring good crops which is performed by riding on a pole, or broom, as a hobby-horse.

Gwenhwyfar, obsessed with bearing children, resorts to asking Morgaine for a fertility charm.

In India, the Smyths report, women consider shells to be fertility charms.

Most scholars believe that these 'frying pans' were not used for cooking, but perhaps as fertility charms or mirrors (Higgins 54).

The "auld wifie"-the tiny fertility charm, its ancient pink stone smooth in the sun, surprisingly heavy in his hand.

There's more than twenty shops in our yard where they sell nothing but fertility charms.

"Here is a fertility charm for your wife," said the Skandia girl, and reached it up to Truman.

"We will be back," they said as they passed their last fertility charms into avid hands.