Sites in Bled and elsewhere have yielded pendants and other pieces of jewellery presumably used to protect the wearer against magic spells. Amulets were generally very common among the Slavs. The Slavs probably ascribed magical powers to certain objects, such as a rumbler bell and a finger ring with a pair of snake heads from Smokuč, as well as three red deer teeth found in a child’s grave at Pristava in Bled.

Rumbler bell, bronze and stone, h. 3.52 cm, 9th c., Smokuč, Grave 8, Inv. No. S 5635.

Three pendants, red deer teeth, h. of the largest 2.77 cm, 9th c., Pristava in Bled, Grave 140, Inv. No. S 257.

Finger ring, bronze, diam. 2.2 cm, 9th c., Smokuč, Grave 22, Inv. No. S 5527.

Knific, Timotej in Nabergoj, Tomaž, 2016: Medieval Stories from the Crossroads, Ljubljana, Fig. 80, pp. 66-75.