We don’t call them phylactery. I think that means pendant or amulet or something in Greek. Tefillin is very specifically little boxes with Torah verses inside them used by some Jews for New York Yankees Who’s Your Daddy Gleyber Torres Shirt. I don’t know of any Jews who’d call Tefillin “phylactery”. Frankly I wish people would stop thinking that phylactery is the “translation” of Tefillin. It’s not. I’m pretty sure the Ancient Greeks just saw Jews using Tefillin, didn’t know what they really were, and used their own word. The way D&D uses phylactery, to me, sounds more like how Коще́й Бессме́ртный (Koschei the Deathless) hid his death in an egg in a duck in a hare that nests in a hollow long, floating on a pond, deep in the forest, on an island, as described in Petr and the Wizard. And since the Russians don’t have their own word, so far as I know, for that whole thing, the Greek “charm” or “amulet” is a good enough term. Personally I might have gone with reliquary, because of the connection with death in my mind, but that may be a tad too Christian for some folks.
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