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- Aazem, great name of God, on rain-stone,5
- Abarchiel, angel of March, 248
- Abbott, Charles E., vii
- Abdos, St., 252
- Abenzoar, 136
- Abracadabra charm, 326, 327
- Abraham, 86
- Abrantès, Duchesse d’, 295
- Acontus, St., 252
- Acosta, José de, 210
- Acrostics in jewels, 375
- Actinolite, 29
- Acts of the Apostles in burning of Ephesian magic books, 325
- Adair, 107
- Adlerstein, 193
- Ægospotami, meteor of, 79, 80
- Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodor, 54
- Ætites, 20, 124, 173–178
- names of, in various languages, 175
- Ætius, 174
- Agapitus, St., 252
- Agate, 30, 31, 291, 317, 324
- Agatha, St., 257, 272
- Agincourt, battle of, 259
- “Ahnighito,” great Cape York meteorite, 97
- Alban, St., stone in Abbey of, 151–153
- Al-Beruni’s statement of prices of precious stones in eleventh century, 403
- Alcathous, 2
- Alchemist’s gold, 14, 16
- Alchemy, 14–16
- Alectorius, 20, 119, 160, 179, 180, 181
- Alexander the Great, 299, 322, 324, 378
- wonderful stones found by, 70
- Alexandra, Queen, talisman of, 362
- Allen, Edward Heron, 116
- Amazon stones, 143, 148, 304, 320
- symbol of Suffrage Party, 374
- Amber, 60–64, 297, 343, 345, 358
- Ambergris, 185, 186
- Ambrose, St., 243, 272
- American Folk Lore Society’s exhibit in Chicago, 190, 191, 352
- American Museum of Natural History, 32, 34, 96, 99
- Amethyst, 58, 123, 296, 330, 335
- Amitabha, emanation of Adi-Buddha, coral statuette of, in Royal Chapel at Lhasa, Tibet, 303
- Amulets and talismans, 313–376
- Abracadabra, 326, 327
- against Evil Eye, 345–347
- Babylonian, 314, 315
- Chinese jade wands as, 385
- detected by Röntgen rays, 358
- Egyptian necklace of, 317
- Egyptian, with engraved amethyst, 280
- encircled with elephant’s hair, 375
- explanations of influence of, 313, 314
- for animals, 360
- fragments of skull used as, 331–334
- from Pueblo Bonito ruins, 352
- from Russia, 308
- Gnostic, with seven vowels, 328
- hei-tikis of New Zealand jade, 361
- Hindu, 330, 340
- in the Bible, 278, 322, 323, 325, 360
- in Ecuador, to arouse love, 350
- in Egypt, 317–321
- in old Italian MS., 327, 328
- in Persian grave, 324
- jade, in Panama, 349
- life preserving, story of, 366, 367
- “mummy eyes,” Peruvian, 350
- of agate and coral in Spain, 367, 368
- of Catherine de’ Medici, 334
- of hematite, 383
- of Mexican Indians, 348
- of Paris, 329
- of the Czar, 309
- Pascal’s, 337
- pearls as, 392
- Queen Elizabeth’s, 337
- set in the skin in Burma, 345
- “Talisman of Charlemagne,” 329–331
- teeth and bone used as, 368, 369
- Tibetan, 343–345
- used by Eskimos, 358, 359
- Anatganor, angel of December, 248
- Anaxagoras, predicts fall of meteorite, 80
- “Angelical stone,” for visions, 16
- Angels, 241–251
- Anglo-Saxon “Laece Bok,” of Bald, 331
- Anna, Santa, President of Mexico, 256
- Anne, St., 253, 272
- Antar, Persian hero, legend of, 88, 89
- Anthony, St., of Padua, 253, 266, 272
- medallion given to church of, by Pope Paul V, 254
- Anthrax, 401
- Aphrodite, 81
- Apollo, 3
- Apollonia, St., of Alexandria, 272
- legend of, 257
- Apollonius of Tyana, 81
- Aquamarine, engraved with head of Julia, 288
- “Aqua Tofana,” 266
- Ariston, St., 252
- Aristophanes, 284
- Aristotle, pseudo-, 5, 69, 70, 163, 396
- Arnobio, Cleandro, 140, 142
- Arnobius, 74
- Arphe, Enrique d’, 294
- Aschentrekker (ash-attractor), a Dutch designation of tourmaline, 52, 54
- Asis Artau, Francisco d’, 295
- Askal, stone said to break the diamond, 69
- Assos, Asia Minor, stone of, 3
- Astarte, 81, 83
- Asteria, 291
- Astroites, 199
- Atnongara-stones of Australian medicine-men, 16
- Aubrey, John, 260
- Auspicius, St., 255
- Autoglyphus, 196
- “Aviator-stone,” 116, 117
- Avicenna (Ben Sina), 90, 125, 138
- Azaêl, angel, 246
- B
- Baccii, Andrea, 153
- Bætyli, 76, 82
- Bajazet II, Sultan, 291
- Balas-ruby, 401, 404
- Bannockburn, Battle of, 25
- Barbara de Portugal, Queen of Spain, 295
- Barbara, St., 273
- legend of, 258
- Barbosa, Duarte, 401
- Barnabas, St., 268, 273
- Baroda, Gaikwar of, 380
- Bartholomæus Anglicus, 147, 394, 395
- Bartholomew, St., 271
- Basillæ, St., 252
- Battê ha-nephesh of Hebrews, 360
- Bauhin, Caspar, 202
- Bausch, 175, 176
- Belaleazar, Sebastian de, 311
- Belemnites, 112, 161, 191
- Bellermann, Johann Joachim, 278
- Belucci, Prof. Giuseppe, 107, 145, 200
- Benzinger, 78
- Berghem, Lodowyk van, 295
- Berlin Academy of Sciences, 54
- Bertholin, Caspar, 139
- Beryl, 287, 317
- Bezoar, 13, 17, 123, 126, 160, 170, 201–220
- “Black magic,” 29
- “Black stone” of Kaabah at Mecca, 73, 84–88
- Blaise, St., 256, 257, 267, 273
- Blake, W. W., vii
- Bloodstone, 121, 286
- Bomare, Valmont de, 155, 217
- “Book of the Dead,” extracts from, 318–320
- Boot, Anselmus de, 65, 144, 145, 151, 162, 165, 192, 199, 204, 223, 226
- Borodino, battle of, 96
- Borrichius, Plaus, 154
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 317
- Boulder’s, legends of, 38 sqq., 263
- Boyle, Robert, 105, 125
- Braddock, Charles, vii
- Brantôme, Seigneur de, 305, 306
- Brereton, Sir William, 111
- Brezina, Aristides, 90
- British Museum, 32, 307
- Broca, Paul, 332
- Broichan the Druid and St. Columba, 24, 156
- Brontia, 162, 197, 198
- Browne, Sir Thomas, on amulets, 314
- Bruce, Robert, 25
- Brückmann, U. F. B., 127
- Bucardites, 196
- Buddha, gem on images of, 297
- Bufonitis, or “toad-stone,” 163
- Burckhardt, 85
- Burgarde, St., 267
- Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” on stone charms, 336
- C
- Caftanzoglu, 373
- Callimus, inclusion in ætites, 174, 175
- Callistratus, 62
- Callistus, St., 252
- Caloceri, St., 251
- Candlemas Day, 269, 272
- Cañon Diablo meteorite, 99–101
- Canticles, 284, 322
- Cantimpré, Thomas de, 12, 130, 164, 172, 180, 285, 336
- Cape York meteorites, 96–98
- chemical composition of, 98
- Carbuncle, 279, 387
- Cardano, Girolamo, 144, 167, 336
- Carew, Sir George, 214
- Carnelian, 291, 297, 300, 317, 324, 361, 368, 378
- Carpoforus, St., 252
- Carrington, Hereward, vii
- Catherine II, Empress, 387
- Catherine, St., of Alexandria, 259, 295
- Catlin, George, 35, 36
- Catlinite, 35, 37
- Cat’s-eye, 11, 29
- Cecil, Henry, 235
- Cecil, Sir Robert, 214
- Cellini, Benvenuto, 20, 378
- Ceraunia, 82
- Ceylon, temple treasure in, 298, 299
- Chalcedony, 30, 31, 123, 131, 287, 291, 296, 301, 303, 361
- Chalchihuitl, 304, 305, 307, 348
- Charlemagne, Emperor, 189, 255, 288, 290
- talisman of, 329–331
- Charles V, Emperor, 294, 306
- Charles V of France, 177
- Charles IX of France, 294
- Charles the Bald, 288
- Charm in old Italian MS., 327, 328
- Chelidonius, or “swallow-stone,” 119, 172
- Chelonia, 170, 171, 198
- Cheops, mummy of, decorated with precious stones, 279
- Chesbet, Egyptian name of lapis lazuli, 149
- Chicken Itzá, Sacred Well of, 307, 308
- Chinkstone (phonolite), 2
- Chladni, 95, 104
- Chlorophane, 237
- Christ, head of, engraved on emerald, 291, 292
- Christian II of Denmark, his magic pebble, 21
- Christian IV of Denmark, 140
- Christopher, St., 258, 259
- Christy collection, 309
- Christy, David, 218
- Chrysocolla, 53
- Chrysolite (peridot), 287, 291
- Chrysoprase, 123, 277, 287
- Cinædias, 169
- Claudian’s epigrams on rock-crystal, 32
- Claui, St., 252
- Clemens, St., 252
- Clement VII, Pope, 387
- Clerc, G. O., vii
- Clotaire II, 262
- Cochrane, Capt. Charles Stuart, 312
- Coligny, Gaspard de, 207
- Color, harmony of, between gowns and jewels, 407
- Columba, St., and white pebbles, legend of, 24, 25, 156
- Conrad III, King of the Germans, 290
- Constantine the Great, 329
- Constantine XII, of Greece, star-sapphire in sword of, 372–373
- Coral, 30, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, 298, 301, 304, 341, 371
- Cornu ammonis, 197
- Cortés, Hernan, 305, 307
- Corundum, 133
- varieties of, 396
- “Crab’s eye,” 167
- “Crabstone,” 121, 122
- Crantz, David, 359
- Crapaudine, or “toad-stone,” 164, 165
- Crescentius, St., 252
- Crispi, Francesco, 339
- Crispin and Crispian, SS., 259, 273
- Cross, jewelled, of Duke of Brunswick, 289
- “Crown of the Virgin,” 287
- Crystal, magic, of a Fijian, 364–366
- Crystal balls as curative amulets, 25
- Culin, Stewart, 358
- Curative “crystals” of Australian medicine-men, 16
- Curative use of gems, 118–159
- Cushing, Lieut. F. H., 310, 358
- Custodia, or monstrance, examples of, in Spain, 294, 295
- Cuthbert, St., 273
- well of, 265
- Cybele, image of, a meteorite, 74, 75
- Cyprianus, St., 252, 253
- Cyriacus, St., 252
- D
- Dagoba, jewelled Buddhist reliquary, 300
- Damigeron, 129
- Daniel, Book of, 242, 243, 250
- David, St., 270, 273
- Davison, J. M., 99
- “Dawn stones” (eoliths), 109
- Declan, St., 273
- stone named after him, 43
- De Foe, Daniel, 326
- Delphi, Omphalus of, probably a meteorite, 76
- “Depositio Martirum” of 354 A.D., 251, 252
- “Devil’s stone,” boulder in East Prussia, 42
- Diamond, 16, 61, 294, 300, 304, 372, 387
- Diana, 81
- Diaz de Castillo, Bernal, 305
- Didanor, Angel of June, 247
- Dieris of Central Africa, rain-stones of the, 6
- Dietrich of Bern, Saga of, story of “Victory Stone” from, 199, 200
- Dioscorides, 150, 173
- Dodge, Mrs. William E., 99
- Dog-collars set with coral as cure for hydrophobia, 131
- Dolmens, curative stones of, 38
- whirling stones of, 39
- Domingo, Santo, Fiesta de, 309
- Donato, St., amulets of, 265
- Donne, John, 337
- Dragons, gem-bearing, of India, 11
- Draper, Mrs. Henry, vii
- “Druid’s glass,” 227, 228
- E
- “Easter stone,” 285
- Ebers papyrus, 148, 149
- Echinites, 192, 193
- Egede, Hans, 359
- Elagabalus, Emperor, 83
- Eldred, John, 389
- Electric gems, 51–64
- Elephants, 299, 301
- “Elf-stones,” 108, 109, 110, 161
- Elizabeth, Queen, 215, 337
- Eloy, St., 264, 273
- “Emanism,” term used to denote influence of amulets, 313
- Emerald, 4, 16, 29, 53, 68, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 131, 136, 277, 278, 287, 291, 294, 298, 304, 310, 317, 324, 330, 343, 371, 395
- Enastros, 192, 194
- Encelius, 167
- Enimie, St., legend of, 262, 264
- Entrochus, 192, 194
- Ephesian writings for amulets, etc., 325
- Ephesus, Temple of Diana at, 81
- Épreuve, or tester, 181
- Erasmus, 164
- Erasmus, St., 267
- Erman, Adolph, 149
- Erosion of stones and pebbles, 22
- Ethelred II, 152
- Eugénie, Empress, 331
- Eulalia, St., 269
- “Evil eye,” 131, 265, 315, 320, 339, 344, 345–347, 367, 368
- “Expanding stone,” 45
- F
- Fabianus, St., 251, 253
- Fairbanks, Arthur, vii
- “Fairy stones,” 37
- Farrington, O. C., vii
- “Fatima’s hand,” 347
- Feavearyear, A. W., vii
- Feldspar, 30, 77, 324
- Felicissimus, St., 252
- Felicitas, St., 251, 253, 274
- Felix, St., 252
- Ferdinand III, Emperor, 15
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, vii
- Filippus, St., 252
- Filocalus, Furius Dionysius, calendar of, 251
- Floating-stones, 223
- Flower jewels, 342, 343
- Foote, A. E., 101
- Fossils and concretions, virtues of, 160–190
- Fox, John, Jr.’s “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” 37
- Foy, Sainte, statuette of, 261, 262
- Francis I of Austria, 89
- Franklin, Benjamin, on tourmaline, 57
- Frederick III of Denmark, 126
- French Academy of Sciences, 54
- G
- Gabelchover, Wolfgang, 153, 158
- Gabriel, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 250 334
- Galactite, 3, 4
- Galba, Emperor, 83
- Galen, 136, 137, 146, 188, 232
- Garcias ab Orta, 68, 204
- Garcilasso de la Vega, 214
- Garnet, 123, 291, 296, 309, 317, 330
- “Gascoigne’s powder,” 127, 128
- Gaster, 371
- “Gem of Sovranty” or “Gem of the King of Kings,” 11
- Gem-cutters, American Indian, 381
- George V, King, 362
- George, St., 261, 274
- Gesner, Conrad, 4, 54, 73, 144
- Gesta Romanorum, snake story from, 238
- Giglioli, Enrico H., 364
- Girasol, 291
- Glæsum (amber), 60
- Glossopetræ, 161, 180, 188–190
- Gnostics, magic jewels of, 328
- “Godstones” buried with the dead, 23
- “Golden Cacique” (El Dorado) at Lake Guatavita, 311
- Gordian the Younger, Emperor, 326
- Gorgonus, St., 252
- Grammatias, variety of jasper, 284
- Green, Miss Bella Da Costa, vii
- Gregory X, Pope, 119
- Gregory XIII, Pope, 212
- Gregory of Tours, his account of Paris talismans, 329
- Guatavita, Lake of, treasures thrown in, 310–312
- Guligas (bezoars) artificially induced by Dayaks of Borneo, 217
- H
- Haberden, William, his researches on tourmaline, 56, 57
- Hadrian, Emperor, 1
- Hahedan, angel of October, 248
- Hair-balls, 220, 221
- Hajar al-hattaf, or “hen-stone,” 181
- Hajar al-hayyat (“madstone”), 225
- Hajer al-Kelb, “dog-stone,” 11, 12
- Hajer al-mathar, Arabic rain-stone, 5
- Hammer-Purgstall, 89
- Harington, Sir James, 120
- Haupt, Paul, 277
- Haüy, Abbé, 56
- Haye, Olivier de la, his poem on “Black Death,” 120
- Hei-tikis, carved jades of New Zealand, 361
- Helena, Queen, 380
- Helena, St., 329
- Heliotrope, 291
- Hematite, 124, 125, 320
- He-no, Iroquois god of thunder, 107
- Henri II, of France, 334
- Herculanus, St., 252
- Hermetes, St., 252
- Herodian, 74
- Hertz, B., 48
- Hildburgh, W. L., 367
- Hildegard, St., her theory of curative stones, 13
- Hill, Sir John, 118
- Hippocrates of Cos, 333
- Hofmann, Johann Peter, alchemist, 15, 16
- Hoffman’s “Fräulein von Scudéry,” 371
- Holme, Saxe (pseudonym), 51
- Holmes, W. H., vii
- Hope, Henry Philip, collection of, 48
- Hortense, Queen, 330
- Hugo, Victor, 153
- Huntington, O. W., 101
- Huth, Ernst, 235
- Huxley, Thomas, 105
- Hyacinth (sapphire?), 282
- Hyænia, 169
- Hydaspes River, stone of, 2
- Hyde, Major, 309
- Hydrophane, or “magic stone,” 240
- Hysterolithus, 75, 195, 196
- I
- Ibn Al-Beithar, 11, 148, 167
- Ibn Batoutah, 84
- Ibn Kadho Shobah, 4
- Ichthys, angel, 246
- Iliad, 138
- Inclusions in crystals, 31, 34
- India, Francesco, 121, 124
- “Indian stone,” 163
- Innocent VIII, Pope, 291
- Isabel of Bavaria, precious-stone remedy of, 177
- Ivory, 303
- Ixmaracdus, St., 252
- J
- Jacinth, 123, 124, 125, 127, 184, 291, 296
- curative use of, 138
- Jacinti, St., 252
- Jackson, Helen Hunt, 51
- Jacob’s stone at Bethel, 76, 78
- Jade, 4, 77, 121, 283, 285, 324, 348, 359, 383, 384, 404
- amulets of white, 342
- as preservative of dead body, 142
- carved amulets of, in Panama, 348, 349
- Chinese girdle pendants of, 341
- Chinese wands of, 384
- curative use of, 139–143
- disk of, in Temple of Heaven, Peking, 302
- Eskimo talismans of, 358
- hei-tiki amulets of, from New Zealand, 361
- in Egypt, 319
- in New Caledonia, 363, 364
- mortuary tablets of, Chinese, 384
- of New Zealand, 362
- ornaments of, from Syria, 384
- Queen Alexandra’s, 362
- Jadeite, 77, 304, 305
- Jagannath, 339, 340
- James I of England, 49, 301
- James, St., 271, 274
- Jargoon, 120
- Jasper, 4, 30, 53, 124, 148, 286, 287, 296, 317, 324, 383
- Jehangir, Mogul Emperor, 92, 208, 301, 383, 405
- Jeremiel, angel, 251
- Jerome, St., 176, 274
- Jerusalem, Temple of, 9
- stones of the New, 70
- Jessen, Peter, vii
- Jet, 352, 386
- Jeweller’s dictum in old London, 407
- Job, Book of, 250
- John XXI, Pope, 119
- John, St., 267, 271, 274
- John the Baptist, 290, 306
- Joseph, St., 266
- Josephine, Empress, 330
- Judd, Neil M., vii
- Julianetes, St., 252
- Julius II, Pope, 267
- Jupiter the Thunderer, 82
- Juvenal, 60
- K
- Kaabah at Mecca, black stone of, 73, 84–88
- Kaempfer, Engelbert, 207, 209
- Khusrau Nushirwan, 89
- Khusrau II, 69
- K’ien-lung, Emperor, 302
- King, Rev. C. W., 62, 328
- Kircher, Athanasius, his theory of lusus naturæ, 50
- Koenig, 99, 100
- Kohut, 243
- Krallenstein, 193
- Krishna, 37
- L
- Lacrima cervi, “stag’s tear,” 170
- Laet, Johann de, 53, 54, 141, 190, 192
- “Lake George diamonds,” 26
- Lamiæ, 190
- Lanciani, 75
- Languier, or “tester,” 181
- Lannes, Marshal, 295
- Lapides caymanum, 181
- Lapis Armenus, 124, 149
- Lapis carpionis, 168, 169
- Lapis Judaicus, 187, 194
- Lapis lazuli, 78, 123, 124, 148, 149, 280, 284, 297, 298, 301, 317, 320, 324
- Lapis Malacensis, 204
- Lapis manati, 181, 182
- Lapis nephriticus (jade), 140
- Laufer, Berthold, 304
- Laurence, St., 267
- Laurentus, St., 252
- Lavoisier, 94
- Lebour, Mrs. Nona, vii
- Lémery, M. Louis, 54
- Leo IV, Pope, 126
- Leo X, Pope, 386
- Leopold, Emperor, 16
- Liceti, Fortunio, 344
- Lingucs Melitenses, 189
- Linnæus, 54
- “Lithica,” Orphic poem on stones, 137, 224
- Lithomania, 19
- “Liver-stones,” 186
- Livia, wife of Augustus, 397
- Loadstone, 64–68, 119, 313
- Loch-mo-naire in Scotland, legend of, 155, 156
- “Loda’s stone of power,” 35
- Los Muertos, Zuñi, jar with turquoise inlays found at, 309
- Lough Neagh, Ireland, legend of yellow crystal there, 35
- Louis XIV, 133
- Louis XVI, 153
- Louvre Museum, 280, 291, 389
- Lucia, St., 258, 271, 275
- legend of, 257
- “Lucky stone,” 28
- Luminous stone of male cobra, 237
- Lusus Naturæ, stones bearing naturally marked images, 47–51
- Luther, Martin, 249
- Lychnis of Pliny (tourmaline?), 52
- Lychnites, 176
- Lysander, 79
- M
- Maccabæus, Judas, 325
- “Madstones,” 225 sqq.
- Mafkat (Egyptian for turquoise?), 316
- Magic stones, 1–71, 109 sqq.
- Magnes (loadstone), 124
- Magnusen, Finn, 198
- Main-de-gloire, 334
- Malachite, 148, 291
- curative use of, 150
- “Malediction stones” in Ireland, 46, 47
- Mallet, F. H., 233
- Mamoun, Khalif, 279
- Maquam Ibrahim, sacred stone in Kaabah at Mecca, 88
- Marbodus of Rennes, 174
- Marco Polo, 343
- Margaret, St., 270, 275
- Margarita, Queen of Italy, 380
- Marguerite de Flandres, 335
- Mariette, 279
- Mark, St., 290
- Marquette, Jacques, 35
- Marriage sword, Chinese ceremony of, 384, 385
- Marshall, J. H., 299
- Martial, 60
- Martin, St., 271
- and the Devil, legend of, 44
- Mary of Scotland, 337
- Mask, ancient Mexican, with turquoise inlays, 306, 307
- Mas’ûdi’s “Meadows of Gold,” 321, 322
- Matthias, St., 270
- Meander River, magic stone of, 12
- “Median stone,” for colic, 144, 151
- Medici, Catherine de’, 332
- her bracelet of charms, 334
- Medicine-men, 348, 349, 353–358
- Medicine-women of Araucarian Indians, Chili, 351
- Megara, sonorous stone at, 2
- Megenberg, Konrad von, 12, 151
- Memmiæ, St., 252
- Memnon, Vocal, 1
- Mentzel, Christian, 187
- Mephniel, angel of January, 248
- Mercato, Michele, 93, 212
- Mesticas of the Malays, 17, 18
- invulnerability conferred by, 18
- Meteorites, 72–117
- accidents caused by, 102–104
- coins representing, 90, 91
- collection of, in Vienna, 90
- from Cape York, 96–98
- from Kiowa Co., Kansas, 101, 102
- from Willamette, Ore., 98, 99
- of Ægospotami, 79, 80
- of Bacubrit, Mexico, 103
- of Book of Joshua, 79
- of Cañon Diablo, 99–101
- of Castrovilarii, Calabria, 93
- of Diana Temple at Ephesus, 81
- of Eisleben, 103
- of Ensisheim, 73
- of Knyahinya, Hungary, 102
- of Lahore, India, 92
- of Luce, Dept. Marne, France, 94
- of Magdeburg, 91
- of Mecca (Black Stone), 73, 84–88
- of Paphos, 81
- of Pergamos, brought to Rome, 74
- of Radacofani, Italy, 91
- of Zanzibar, 71
- Pallas, or Krasnojarsk, 95
- pwdre ser, or “star-rot” of Welsh, 104–106
- Swords made of, 88–90, 92
- “Verwünschte Burggraf” of Elbogen, 89, 90
- Michael, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 250, 334
- Midêwiwin, or Great Medicine Society of the Ojibways, 354, 355
- Milinda, King, 11
- Milo of Croton, wore an alectorius, 179
- Milprey, “thousand worms,” Cornish name of a snake-stone, 227
- “Mineral stone,” for turning pebbles into precious stones, 16
- Mohammed, 74, 84
- Mohammed Ben Mansur, 396, 397
- Mohammed Ghazni, Sultan, 90
- Moissan, Henri, 100
- Monardes, Nicolo, in jade, 139, 201, 203
- Montezuma’s gifts to Cortés, 305, 307, 309
- Months, angels of the, 247
- Moonstone, remarkable, of Pope Leo X, 386
- Moonstone Beach, Santa Catalina Island, pebbles from, 30
- Moore, Thomas, 250
- Morael, angel of September, 248
- Morgan, Henry de, 323
- Morgan, J. Pierpont, 185
- “Mummy eyes,” Peruvian, 352
- Museum of University of Pennsylvania, 358
- N
- Napoleon I, 96, 295
- Napoleon III, Emperor, 330
- Nash, Thomas, 166
- Nautilus pearls, 391
- Nebuchadnezzar I, 78
- Necklace of the Egyptian Princess Sat-Hathor-Ant, XII Dynasty, 317, 318
- Neshem-stone, 320
- New Caledonian stone amulets, 45
- New Zealand jade, punamu or “green-stone,” 361–363
- Newton, Hubert A., 72, 73, 74
- Nicholas I, Emperor, 285
- Nicholas, St., 275
- legend of, 258
- Nicholas, St., of Bari, “manna” of, 266
- Nicostratus, St., 252
- Noah’s rain-stone, 4, 5
- Nonnus, St., 252
- Nordenskiold, Baron N. A. E., 97
- Norman, Robert, poem on loadstone, 66
- Nung-gara, or Australian medicine-men, 17
- O
- Oleum succini, 64
- Ombria, 162, 197, 198
- Onyx, 277, 335, 369
- Opal, 372, 374, 407
- Orchamps, Baronesse d’, 371
- Osman, Augustin, 374
- Ostrea Singapora, 391
- Ostrites, 224, 225
- Otilia, St., 267
- Overbury, Sir Thomas, 381
- Ovid, 131
- Ovum anguinum, 162, 197, 221–224, 226
- Oyaron, Indian amulet-control, 354
- P
- Padparasham-gem (corundum) of Ceylon, 395
- Palladius, 64
- Paré, Ambroise, 206, 207
- Paris, Matthew, 152
- Paris talismans, Gregory of Tours’ account of, 329
- Parthenus, St., 251
- Pascal, Blaise, amulet of, 337, 338
- Pater de sang, or “blood-rosary,” 133
- Patrick, St., 43, 225
- Paul II, Pope, 126
- Paul V, Pope, 254
- Paul, St., 269, 275
- Pausanius, 2
- “Peace Stone,” 58
- Pearls, 20, 120, 124, 126, 127, 277, 280, 291, 294, 299, 300, 304, 305, 330, 341, 380, 387
- Arabic theory of genesis of, 388, 394
- “cocoanut,” supposed, 391
- from Philippines, 391, 392
- immense baroque, 392
- Mme. Thiers’ necklace of, 389
- necklace of, in Persian grave, 324
- of nautilus, 391
- “powder,” 390
- Rumphius on supposed breeding of, 392
- story of a luminous, 390
- story of, thrown into Venetian canal by pearl-dealer, 393
- strange tale of, 388, 389
- Peary, Admiral Robert E., 96
- “Pebble-mania,” 19, 20
- among birds, 20
- Pebbles, ornamental, 19–31
- worn by Hindus, 37
- Penel, angel, 246
- Pepper, George H., 352
- Peridot (chrysolite), 281
- Perkin Warbeck, 401
- Perpetua, St., 251, 253
- Persian princess, jewels in her grave, 323–325
- Pescadero Beach, Cal., pebbles from, 30
- Peter, St., 250, 251, 276, 290
- Peter’s, St., in Rome, 51
- Petrie, Flinders, 317
- Petrograd Museum of Natural History, 95
- Petrus Hispanus (Pope John XXI), 119
- Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 32
- Philippine pearls, 391, 392
- “Philosopher’s Stone,” 14, 16
- Phonolite, 2
- Pierre de santé, 153
- Pierres de foudre, 94
- “Pierres tourniresses,” or whirling stones, 39
- Pietre gravide, or “pregnant stones,” 178
- Pilatus Mountain, Lake Lucerne, galactite found on, 4
- “Pipestone,” 35
- Piropholos, stone from heart of a poisoned man, 12
- Pitchblende, 129
- Pitdah, stone of high-priest’s breastplate, 403
- Plasma-emerald, 20
- Plato’s Phædon, daimon, or guardian angel in, 246
- Pliny, 3, 32, 52, 62, 80, 82, 129, 137, 146, 169, 170, 172, 173, 188, 196, 221, 222, 224, 226
- Plutarch, 80, 82
- Pogue, Joseph E., 353
- Point Barrow Eskimos, amulets of, 358, 359
- Ponce de Leon, 14
- Poncet, Charles Jacques, 210
- Pontianus, St., 252
- “Porcupine-stone,” 184, 185
- Precious stones thrown up on coast of Alexandria, Egypt, 321
- Procopius, 64
- Protus, St., 252
- Psellus, 129, 135
- Ptolemy the Geographer, 382
- Pwdre ser, “star-rot,” 104–106
- Pyrite, curative use of, 153
- Q
- Quartz, 324
- Quartz pebbles, 19 sqq.
- Quirinius, St., 267
- R
- Radium, 129
- Raguel, angel, 245
- of May, 247
- “Rainbow agate,” 377, 378
- “Rainbow-disease,” 114
- Rain-making stones, 4–7
- Raphael, archangel, 243, 245, 250
- Raziel, angel, 247
- Redi, Francesco, 232
- Redondo Beach, Cal., pebbles from, 30, 31
- Red-paint People of Maine, 28
- Reed, Sir Charles Hercules, vii
- Reich, David, 192, 199
- Religious use of precious stones, 277–312
- Renouf, P. Le Page, 319
- Revelation, Book of, 243
- Rhodonite used for tomb of Nicholas I, 285
- as “Easter Stone,” 285
- Rivaud, Charles, 375
- Roch, St., 259, 267, 276
- Rock-crystal, 123, 170, 285, 297, 317
- Roe, Sir Thomas, 301
- “Roland’s Foot,” stone at Toufailles, France, 43
- Röntgen rays to detect amulets, 358
- Rosaries, 202
- Rose-quartz, 384
- Royal National Museum of Munich, 288
- “Royal stone,” from eagle’s head, 13
- Rubellite, 384
- Ruby, 11, 16, 58, 123, 125, 291, 294, 296, 297, 299, 314, 343, 407
- Rudolph II, Emperor, 208, 215
- Rumphius, Georg Eberhard, 18, 238, 244, 392
- S
- Sabaoth, angel, 245
- “Sacred shrine” of Cathedral of Chartres, 291
- Sacred stone of Kiowa Indians, 44
- Sadlier, Rev. Charles, vii
- Saints’ Days, alphabetical list of, 272–276
- Sâlagrâma-stone of Hindus, 196–198
- Sammonicus, Serenus, 326
- Sanchoniathon, 81
- Santa Casa of Loreto, 186, 267
- Santos-Dumont’s loadstone, 264
- Sapphire, 11, 16, 31, 58, 119, 123, 124, 125, 284, 285, 287, 290, 291, 294, 299, 304, 330, 336, 343, 407
- Sarcophagus-stone, 3
- Sard, 287
- Sardonyx, 123, 291, 372
- engraved gem of, 288
- Saturninus, St., 252
- Sauvageot collection, 291
- Scarabs, 320, 321
- Schliemann, Heinrich, 323
- Schola Salernitana, 120
- Schrott, John, 230
- Schwindelstein (vertigo-stone), 153
- Scipio Africanus, 74
- Sebastian, St., 251, 259, 276, 290
- Secundus, St., 252, 276
- Seiler, Wenzel, alchemist, 15
- Seleucia, meteorite of, 81
- Semnes, St., 252
- Sempronianus, St., 252
- Seneca, 82
- “Sepher de-Adam Kadmah,” 247
- Serpentine, 320, 350
- “Serpents’ eggs,” 221–224, 226
- Seuerianus, St., 252
- Shahkevheren, or “King of Jewels,” 68, 69
- Shah-muhra, Persian magic stone, 13
- Shakespeare, 162, 260, 337, 379, 391, 393
- Shamir, mysterious Hebrew stone, 7–10
- Sharks’ teeth, fossil, 190
- Sh’efiel, angel of April, 247
- Shoham-stone, 277
- Siamese girl’s consecration, jewels worn at, 342
- Signatures, doctrine of, 118
- Silanus, St., 252
- Simon and Jude, SS., 271
- Skulls, disks from, as talismans, 331–334
- Smaragdus, 319, 320, 384
- “Snake-stone,” 221–240
- Snouck-Hurgronje, Dr. C., 87
- Socrates, 397
- Solomon, 9, 10
- “Southern stone” in Kaabah at Mecca, 87
- Spangenberg’s Saxon Chronicle, 103
- “Spider-stone,” 183, 184
- anecdote of, 183
- Spinel, 296
- Spitzer collection, 185
- “St. Paul’s earth,” 189
- Star-sapphire, as Christmas gem, 286
- Steatite, 300
- Steinzungen, 189
- Stone Age in China, 76–78
- “Stone of the Banner,” 25
- “Stones of the cobra,” 231, 232, 235–238
- Stûpra, celestial, Hindu shrine, 298
- Suckling, Sir John, 104
- Suetonius, 83
- Suffrage Party, amazon-stone as symbol of, 374
- Sunstone, 387
- Sutton, Edward Forrester, vii
- Swithin, St., 270, 276
- Swords made of meteoric iron, 88–90, 92
- Symbolic jewel composed of three keys, 375
- Sympathetic magic, doctrine of, 366
- T
- Ta’anbanu, angel of July, 247
- Tabasheer, 149, 233, 235
- Tacitus, 60, 81
- Talismans, see amulets
- Tan Sien Ko, vii
- Tashnedernis, angel of February, 248
- Tasmanian rain-makers, 34
- Taurinus, St., 252
- Tavernier, Jean Baptiste, 110, 185, 230, 231, 235
- Tecolithos, 188
- Teeth as amulets, 368
- Tetragrammaton, 278
- Thales, 63
- Thebes, 1, 2
- Theophrastus, 3, 53, 118, 173, 401
- Theriaca Andromachi or “Venice treacle,” 121
- “Thesaurus Pauperum” of Pope John XXI, 119
- “Thetis’s hair stone,” 29
- Thevenot, M. de, 231
- Thiers, Mme., pearl necklace of, 389
- Thomas, St., 268, 271
- Thoth, named “Trismegistos” by the Greeks, 320
- “Thunder-stones,” 76, 86, 83, 92, 94, 106–116, 161, 350
- Thurston, Sir J., 366
- Tiberius Cæsar, 291, 292
- Tibetan jewelry, 341
- Tiffany and Co., 373
- Timoteus, St., 252
- Toad-stone, 162–167, 192
- Tobit, Book of, 243, 250
- Tofte, Richard, 61
- Tohargar, angel of August, 247
- Topaz, 11, 58, 124, 287, 290, 291, 372, 407
- Tourmaline, 51–60, 384, 407
- Trallianus, Alexander, 144
- Trephining in primitive times to obtain skull-talismans, 332, 333
- Tribes, Hebrew, meaning of their names, 281–284
- Trochites, 192, 193
- Trowbridge, Breck, 373
- Tse-boum, or incense vase, in Dalai Lama’s palace at Lhasa, 302
- Tubuas, angel, 245
- Turmali, Cinghalese name of tourmaline, 52
- Turquoise, 20, 159, 291, 296, 310
- amulets of, from Pueblo Bonito, 352
- book on, by Dr. Joseph E. Pogue, 353
- favorite stone in Tibet, 343, 344, 404
- in ancient Egyptian tale, 316
- in ancient Persian jewels, 324
- inlays of, in Mexican masks, 306, 307
- large pendant of, on Buddha’s statue, 304
- meaning of Persian name of, 316
- offered to image of Santo Domingo, 309
- of Los Cerrillos, 309
- religious favor given to, in Tibet, 304
- set in sheep’s eyes, 316
- Shylock’s, 337
- valued by Pima Indians of Arizona, 353
- Tycho Brahe, 179
- U
- Uleranen, angel of November, 248
- Ultunda-stones of Australian medicine-men, 16
- Umbilicus marinus, 191
- Uriel, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 251, 334
- Urim and Thummim, 278
- V
- Valentine, St., 270, 276
- Vases offered to the Buddha, 297
- Verres, Caius, 405, 406
- Verus, Lucius, 397
- Victoria, Queen, 48, 375
- Victorini, St., 252
- Vienna, Natural History Museum of, 90
- Virgil, 82
- “Virgin’s milk,” 4
- Vishnu, double footprint of, legend regarding, 340
- Vitus, St., 270, 276
- Vlasto, D., 373
- Volmar, 13
- W
- Wada, T., vii
- Walpole, Horace, 381
- Walpurgis, St., Day, 21
- Ward, W. Hayes, vii
- “Watermelon stone,” variety of tourmaline, 58
- Weighing of the Mogul Emperor, 301
- Wells, T. Tilestone, 373
- Wenceslaus Chapel in St. Veit’s at Prague, adorned with precious stones, 296
- “Whitby jet,” 380
- White, H. C., 239
- “White magic,” 29
- White quartz of Clan Donnachaidh, 24, 25
- White stones in burials, 23, 24, 27
- Whitfield, J. E., 98, 99
- Wilkes, Major J. D., 218
- Willamette meteorite, 98, 99
- chemical composition of, 99
- Wilson, Robert, 154
- “Witch-stones,” 200
- Wittich, Johann, 132
- Wolff, Johann, 126
- Wright, Thomas, 153
- Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 313
- X
- Xystus, St., 252
- Y
- Yeamans, Mrs. Annie, 374
- Ypolitus, St., 252
- Z
- Zemzem, well of, at Mecca, 87