The red string bracelet is a very common talisman in witchcraft/Wicca and Kabbalah, which is basically a hybrid of Talmudic Judaism and witchcraft.
Here in the picture of Antipope Bergoglio being presented with the Stang he carried yesterday by two females at a “youth rally” at the Circus Maximus in Rome in August, you can clearly see the woman on the left, holding the Stang, is wearing the knotted red thread talisman bracelet.
“The Red Thread (and the Initiatory Process)” – must read, note the references to Cainism, spelled “Qayin”
Citations on this are practically endless.