It's sad that people look on the negative side of this. Imagine being a christain in Nigeria and you put on cowries as a necklace heading to church, you maybe tagged or labelled evil. Our ideology has been manipulated from the roots that we sometimes disregard or slash out our traditions tagging some of the ancient practices as evil.
some of the images on your post needs proper referencing. I hope you know how to reference images you pick up from the internet
Dante is Here No fear
Cheers
RE: Cowries and Tradition