spancels

Jeremy hunted for the fictional key to the imaginary spancels.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

Jeremy hunted for the fictional key to the imaginary spancels.

Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

So then they bound two spancels about the ankle-joints of Etarcumul's feet and he was dragged along behind his horses and chariot.

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

"He tuck de han 'cuffs off my han's," she replied, "an 'de spancels off my feet, an' Jesus made me free."

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

“He tuck de han 'cuffs off my han's,” she replied, “an' de spancels off my feet, an 'Jesus made me free.”

A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881

He had his handcuffs and spancels (ancle-beads, they call them for a nickname) with him.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856

It was then that all the binding-spells were wrought, great and small -- from the Sigil of Darkness and other things like it which are utterly abominable to the mageborn, down to the little ones which make this or that thing na-aar -- metaphysically dead and impervious to magic -- like the pistols and crossbows of the Witchfinders, so that no mage can fox their aim or cause them to misfire, and such things as spell-cord and spancels.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986