This amulet is alleged to be the companion of the GEATAO oracion, which is used to triumph against all odds, as illustrated by the tree root piercing through a stone.
Of course it is highly possible and even more highly probable that the albularyo drilled a hole through the stone and shot a tree root, still alive, through the hole and unearthed it after some time, but, contrived or not, I can see how this is considered an appropriate visual metaphor for GEATAO.
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