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An acorn carried or displayed as a charm, and used as a decorative finial.
Also known as: Lucky acorn, Acorn finial
An acorn carried in the pocket or turned in wood as a blind-cord pull. The folklore explanation ties it to oak, lightning and Thor or Donar; the household object is real and the explanation is a recorded rationalisation.
Carried as a pocket charm for luck and long life, and made in wood as the pull on a window-blind cord — a domestic object whose form persists long after any charm intent.
Britain and northern Europe
Explained in the folklore record by the oak's association with thunder gods and by a belief that an acorn on a windowsill would keep lightning from the house. This is a recorded explanation rather than an established origin.
A recorded folk explanation, not a documented origin of the practice.
An oval nut with a rounded point at the bottom, seated in a textured cup that covers its upper third, with a short stalk on top.