Once the whaling trade began, the practitioners began engraving the bones of those greats beasts, rendering charms that sing in the night and grant some small boon, increasing a lover's vigor or providing defense against pregnancy. In old times, sailors cut into the tusks of ice seals and into the arm-long fangs of the bears that roamed the islets north of Tyvia. The carving itself is a practice from long back, passed from salty-dogs to young greenhorns stills finding their sea legs.
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