Sorry to hear about your grandmother...it's always terrible when Alzheimer's takes a mind. I believe the letters are hebrew, as is the talsiman, and it's extremely old version. It should have a center symbol, so either it's unfinished, or won't work for what it was intended. There are natural energies that are bound within the pentagram by the lines crossing themselves and being unbroken, the energy is represented by the hebrew letter cooresponding to it, but to leave the center open is to let something out, or release an energy. At the moment I don't have my books with me, so I don't know what was being bound or released...

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