# The Story of the Amulet — Character guide

> Key figures in The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit.

- [Anthea](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/anthea.md): Anthea is the child who smooths things over — coaxing the Psammead down from its sand-bath, hushing Jane before a wish goes wrong, and gently steering the others when Cyril's cleverness outruns their patience. She is als
- [Cyril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/cyril.md): Cyril is the brother who grabs Jane's hand before a wish can carry them off to Egypt, reasoning that they daren't leave home in case the Queen of Babylon arrives that very minute. He is impatient with enchanted logic — '
- [Jane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/jane.md): Jane is the child who consents to stop painting only because Chinese white gives you a queer feeling in the throat, and who blurts the question that cracks a scene open — 'Whatever are you doing?' — when the others hang 
- [Robert](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/robert.md): Robert is the one who says 'I see' and means it, who asks whether the Amulet will work both ways, and who remembers — too late — that the Queen of Babylon couldn't lift anything from the Museum's glass cases. He is eager
- [The Psammead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/the_psammead.md): The Psammead is bound to the children by an old wish that servants never notice it, which is why old Nurse walks past the sand-bath without a glance. It is sharp-tongued and grudging — 'You must have bolted your breakfas
- [The Priest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/the_priest.md): The priest belongs to the world the Amulet opens — Babylon, its temples, its learned men, its careful ceremonies — and he treats the children's arrival as something to be weighed rather than merely wondered at. He is the
- [Rekh-marā](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/rekh_mara.md): Rekh-marā belongs to the temple world of ancient Egypt, where the Amulet is his by right and the children are thieves. Bound and threatened with the guards, he trades curses for a treaty, promising to deal fairly while c
- [Old Nurse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/old_nurse.md): Old Nurse keeps the Fitzroy Street household running while the children slip through the Amulet into Babylon and beyond, and she notices only that they seem quiet and pale. Her cheerful blindness to their adventures — sh
- [The Captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/the_captain.md): A sea captain who interacts with the children during their travels.
- [Julius Caesar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/julius_caesar.md): The Roman leader encountered by the children in ancient times.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/mother.md): The children's mother, briefly referenced as away from home.
- [Imogen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/imogen.md): A little girl encountered during the children's adventures.
- [The Babylonian Queen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/the_babylonian_queen.md): A queen encountered during the children's visit to Babylon.
- [Ji-jimmy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_amulet_se/characters/ji_jimmy.md): A character with a whimsical name appearing in the story.

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