496. Symeonis Logothetæ, cognomento Metaphrastæ, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1864, vol. iii, col. 315.

497. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum, Bononiæ,” 1648, p. 653.

498. Thoms, “Anecdotes and Traditions,” London, 1839, p. 103 (Camden Soc. Pub.).

499. See plate in the present writer’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913, opp. p. 356.

500. Mlle. Marie König, “Poupées et légendes de France,” Paris, n. d., pp. 77–80.

501. St. Louis Democrat, 1905.

502. De Lespinasse, “Les métiers et corporations de la ville de Paris,” Paris, 1892, p. 11.

503. Nature, vol. lxxxvi, p. 429; Oct. 6, 1910.

504. Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 113–119. Figures.

505. Pettigrew, “On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery,” p. 36. (Quotation from Melton, “Astrologaster,” p. 20.)

506. Notes and Queries, 2d Series, vol. viii, London, 1859, p. 242.

507. Wehrenfels, “A Dissertation on Superstition,” p. 36; prefixed to “Occasional Thoughts on the Power of Curing the King’s-Evil,” London, 1748.

508. Lean’s Collectanea, vol. i, Bristol, 1902, pp. 373–384.

509. Johann Joachim Bellermann, “Die Urim und Thummim, die ältesten Gemmen,” Berlin, 1824, pp. 21, 22. For a full account of the breastplate see the present writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913, chap. viii, pp. 275–306.

510. Wallace-Dunlop, “Glass in the Old World,” London, n. d., p. 6.

511. From “Jewellers’ Circular Weekly,” Nov. 12, 1913.

512. Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, cols 543, 544.

513. Sometimes believed to be rock-crystal.

514. Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, col. 544.

515. A stained or colored massive quartz.

516. Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, col. 545.

517. Ibid. col. 544.

518. Konrad von Megenberg’s version, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 459.

519. The Complete Ceremonies and Procedures Observed at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, London, n. d., p. 28.

520. Sanctorum Hildefonsi, Leodegarii, Juliani, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1882, coll. 283–318.

521. Adolf Furtwängler, “Die Antiken Gemmen,” Berlin, 1900; vol. i, Plate LXVII, Nos. 5, 2; described in vol. ii, p. 309.

522. Ibid., vol. i, Plate LXVIII, fig. 8; described in vol. ii, p. 307.

523. Op. cit., vol. i, Plate LXVII, in No. 7; described in vol. ii, p. 307.

524. Op. cit., vol. I, Plate LXVII, No. 3; described in vol. ii, p. 307.

525. Op. cit., vol. i, Plate LXVII, No. 1; described in vol. ii, p. 307.

526. Handbuch der Königlichen Museum zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbe Museum, by Julius Lessing, Berlin, 1892, p. 14.

527. The Jewellers’ Circular, Wednesday, December 16, 1914, vol. lxix, No. 20, p. 43.

528. F. de Mély, “Le Trésor de Chartres 1314–1793,” Paris, 1886, pp. 16–21, 30.

529. See C. W. King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, pp. 95–112; “The Emerald Vernicle of the Vatican.”

530. Thurston, “History of the Rosary in all Countries,” Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 1, p. 271; London, 1902.

531. Leumann, “Rosaries Mentioned in Indian Literature;” in Trans. of the Ninth Cong. of Orient; (1892), London, 1893, pp. 883–889.

532. Inventory of royal treasures in the Château de Fontainebleau, Bibl. Nat. MS. franc. 4732; fol. 3 of transcript in author’s library from the collection of M. E. Molinier.

533. Carlos Justi, “Los Arfe”; in España Moderna, vol. 299, November, 1913, pp. 83, 87.

534. Mémoires de Madame la Duchesse d’Abrantès, Paris, n. d., vol. 7, p. 447.

535. Robert de Berquen, “Les Merveilles des Indes,” Paris, 1661, pp. 87, 32.

536. Dr. B. Ježek, “Aus dem Reiche der Edelsteinen,” Prag, 1913, pp. 128–131.

537. See G. F. Kunz, “Five Brazilian Diamonds,” Science, vol. iii, p. 649, No. 69, May 30, 1884.

538. Heuen Tsang, “Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales,” French trans. by Stanislas Julien, Paris, 1857, vol. i, p. 482.

539. “The Saddharma-Pundarîka, or the Lotus of the True Law,” trans. by H. Kern, Oxford, 1884, p. 228.

540. See J. Ribeyro, “Histoire de l’Isle de Ceylon,” French trans. of Abbé le Grand, Amsterdam, 1701, pp. 184, 185.

541. An account of King Kirti Sri’s embassy to Siam in 1672, Saka (1750 A.D.), trans. from Sinhalese by P. E. Pieris. Extract from Jour. Roy. As. Soc., vol. xviii, No. 54 (1903).

542. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, vol. xvii, p. 168, illustration.

543. Surindro Mohun Tagore, “Mani Mala,” Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881, pp. 573, 601, 703.

544. Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 106; see Major H. H. Cole, “Preservation of the Natural Monuments of India,” Pl. 52.

545. “Journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador of James I to Shah Jehangir, Mogul Emperor of Hindoostan”; in Kerr’s Collection of Voyages and Travels, Edinburgh, 1824, vol. ix, p. 288.

546. Von Hammer, “Auszüge aus dem persischen Werke, Buch der Edelsteine, von Mohammed Ben Manssur”; in Fundgruben des Orients, vol. vi, p. 138; Wien, 1818.

547. Berthold Laufer, “Jade, a Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion,” Chicago, 1912, p. 157.

548. J. Deniker, “The Dalai Lama’s new Tse-boum from Paris,” Century Magazine, vol. lxvii, No. 4, Feb., 1904, pp. 582–583, with illustration.

549. Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1, Chicago, July, 1913, p. 11.

550. “Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva España,” Bib. de Aut. Esp., vol. xxvi, Madrid, 1866, p. 35.

551. Dr. Eduard Seler, “Similarity of Design of Some Teotihuacan Frescoes and Certain Mexican Pottery Objects,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, XVIII Session, London, 1912; Pt. II, London, 1913, p. 200.

552. “Among them that are born of woman there hath not arisen a greater.” Matt. xi, 11.

553. “Œuvres du Seigneur de Brantôme,” Londres, 1779, vol. v, pp. 35, 36.

554. W. H. Holmes, “Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art,” II, Mosaic Work; reprint from Art and Archæology, vol. I, no. 3, Nov., 1914; see pp. 96, 97, and Figs. 2 and 3, pp. 92, 93.

555. Edward H. Thompson, “The Home of a Forgotten Race”; in The National Geographic Magazine, vol. xxv, No. 6, pp. 585–608; June, 1914.

556. Fewkes, “Archæological Investigations on the Island of La Plata, Ecuador,” Field Columbian Museum Pub. No. 56; Anthrop. Ser., vol. ii, No. 5, Chicago, 1901, pp. 266 sqq.

557. George F. Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” New York, 1890, pp. 61, 62.

558. Karutz, “Der Emanismus,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 45th Jahrgang, 1913, Heft III, Berlin, 1913, pp. 559, 560.

559. Browne, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” London, 1650, Bk. II, chap. 5, p. 65.

560. Scientific American, June 28, 1913, p. 575.

561. Morris Jastrow, Jr., “Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens,” vol. I, Giessen, 1905, pp. 335–339.

562. Pogue, “The Turquois,” Washington, 1915, citing an article by Sikes, In “Folk-lore,” vol. xii, p. 268, London, 1901.

563. Cited by Joseph E. Pogue, in “The Turquois”; Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. xii, pt. ii, Third Memoir, Washington, 1915, p. 13. From Ouseley, “Travels in Various Countries of the East, more Particularly Persia,” London, 1819, vol. i, pp. 210–212.

564. Pogue, “The Turquois,” Washington, 1915, citing Petrie “Egyptian Tales, First Series, Fourth to Twelfth Dynasty,” London, 1895, pp. 16–22.

565. Budge, “The Mummy,” Cambridge, 1894, pp. 330–331.

566. Communicated by Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

567. “Life Work of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf,” vol. vi, Paris, 1907.

568. “The Life Work of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf,” vol. iv, Paris, 1907, p. 71.

569. Flinders Petrie, “The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt,” Edinburgh and London, 1909, p. 79.

570. Carlo Landberg, “Proverbes et dictons de la province de Syrie, Section de Sayda,” Leyden, 1883, pp. 313, 314.

571. Oskar Schneider, “Ueber Anschwemmung von antiken Arbeitsmaterial an der Alexandriner Küste,” in “Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Geographie und Kulturgeschichte,” Dresden, 1883, pp. 4, 5, 6.

572. Maçoudi, “Les Prairies d’Or,” text and French trans. by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille, vol. ii, Paris, 1863, pp. 436, 437, chap, xxxii.

573. Gesenius in his Hebrew Dictionary even conjectures that the lehâshîm may have been shells, which when held to the ear gave forth sounds believed to have an ominous significance.

574. Delegation en Perse, vol. viii, Recherches Archéoligiques 3 ème Série, Paris, 1905, pp. 36–58.

575. “Curieuse Kunst und Werck-Schul,” Nürnberg, 1705, p. 994.

576. Préceptes Médicaux de Serenus Sammonicus, text and trans. by L. Baudet, Paris, 1845, pp. 74–77.

577. De Foe, “A Journal of the Plague Year,” London, 1895, p. 38 (vol. ix of Works ed. by Aitken).

578. Ms. Gr. No. 2411, fol. 60. See C. Werscher, Bull. de la Soc. Nat. des antiq. de la France, 1874, vol. xxxv, pp. 153 sqq.

579. King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, p. 187.

580. In the author’s library.

581. King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, pp. 229, 230.

582. Gregorii Episcopi Turonensis, “Historia Francorum,” ed. Arndt, and Krusch, Para I, Hannoveræ, 1884, p. 349, lib. viii, cap. 33.

583. Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne, ed. by Dom Fernand Cabrol and Dom H. Leclercq, Fasc. xxv, Paris, 1911, cols. 696–698, with cuts of the talisman taken from those given by E. Aus’m Weertht to illustrate a paper in the Jahrb. des Vereins der Alterthumsfreunde im Rheinlande, vols. xxxix-xl, p. 265–272, Plates IV, V, VI, Bonn, 1866. The original photographs were taken by express permission of Napoleon III.

584. Emile Ollivier, “L’Empire Libérale,” Paris, 1897, vol. ii, p. 55.

585. Rev. Oswald Cockayne, “Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England,” London, 1865, vol. ii, p. 299 (Bk. II, cap. 66 of the “Laece Boc”).

586. Renel, “Les religions de la Gaule avant le Christianisme,” Paris, 1906, p. 97.

587. See Paul Broca, “Sur la trépanation du crâne et les amulettes crâniennes de l’époque néolitique,” Revue d’Anthropologie, vol. vi, 1877, pp. 1–42, 193–225; and also his “Amulettes crâniennes et trépanation préhistorique” in the same Revue, vol. v, 1876, pp. 106, 107.

588. Kumagusu Minakata, “Trepanning among Ancient Peoples,” Nature, Jan. 15, 1914, pp. 555, 556; citing Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910, vol. xiii, p. 518, and E. A. Schiefner, “Tibetan Tales,” trans. Ralston, 1906, p. 98.

589. Pierre Lacroix, “Sciences et Lettres au Moyen Age,” Paris, 1877, p. 250.

590. Martin, “Histoire de France,” vol. x, Paris, 1844, p. 451, note. From a communication of Pierre Lacroix, citing as authority: “Catalogue des tableaux, antiquités, pierres gravées, etc., etc., du cabinet de feu M. d’Ennery, écuyer,” by Remi and Miliotti, Paris, 1786.

591. Birlinger, “Kleinere deutsche Sprachdenkmäler”; in Germania, vol. iii (1863), p. 303.

592. Cardani, “De subtilitate,” lib. vii, Basileæ, 1560, p. 473.

593. Inventaire des biens de Marguerite de Flandres Duchesse de Bourgogne, Bibl. Nat., coll. Moreau, 1727; on fol. 96 of transcription in author’s library, from the collection of M. E. Molinier.

594. Konrad von Megenberg’s old German version “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 449.

595. Cardani, “De rerum varietate,” lib. v, Basileæ, 1557, p. 100.

596. Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 330.

597. “Anatomy of Melancholy,” Bk. II, § 4, i, 4.

598. Agnes Strickland, “Lives of the Queens of England,” vol. vii, pp. 770, 778.

599. Alex. Nicholes, “A Discourse of Marriage and Wiveing,” 1615, Hasl. Misc. II, 180; cited in Lean’s Collectanea, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 641.

600. F. Lalut, “L’amulet de Pascal,” in Annales méd. psych., I ser., vol. v, pp. 157–180; and P. E. Littré, “Médecine et médecins,” Paris, 1872, pp. 95–97.

601. “Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,” ed. by Friedrich Michael Schiele, vol. i, Tübingen, 1909, col. 455.

602. Enrico H. Giglioli, “Di alcuni ex-voto amuleti, ed altri oggetti litici adoperati nel culto di Krishna, sotto la forma di Jagan-natha a Puri in Orissa,” Archivio per l’Antropologia, vol. xxiii, pp. 87–89; Firanzi, 1893.

603. Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 169; Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1. Chicago, July, 1913; see text opposite frontispiece plate.

604. Berthold Laufer, “Jade, a Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion,” Chicago, 1912, pp. 194 sqq.

605. Communicated by Dr. Charles S. Braddock, formerly physician to the court of Siam, under date of February 13, 1903.

606. Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 27; Plate XV, Figs. 112, 113.

607. L. Austine Waddell, “Lhasa and its Mysteries, with a Record of the Expedition of 1903–1904,” London, 1905, pp. 347, 348.

608. Ibid., pp. 348, 349.

609. Fortunio Liceti, De annulis, cap. 19.

610. Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 59.

611. H. Shway Yoe, “The Burman: His Life and Nations,” in “Indian Jewellery,” by T. H. Hendley. The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, Jan., 1909, vol. xii, No. 105, p. 143.

612. Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, pp. 320 sqq.

613. Alois Musil, “Arabia Petræa,” Wien, 1908, vol. iii, pp. 314, 315.

614. Lean’s Collectanea (by Vincent Stuckey Lean), vol. ii, Pt. I, Bristol, 1903, p. 468.

615. Professora Isabel Ramirez Castañeda, “El Folk-Lore de Milpa Alta, D. F., Mexico,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, XVIII Session, London, 1912, Pt. II, London, 1913, pp. 352–354.

616. Ibid., pp. 356, 357.

617. George Grant McCurdy, Ph.D., “A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities,” New Haven, Conn., 1911, p. 42, figs. 45 and 49; Mem. of the Conn. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, vol. iii, March, 1911.

618. R. Verneau and P. Rivet, “Ethnologie ancienne de l’Equateur,” Paris, 1912, vol. vi of Mission du service Géologique de l’armée pour la mesure d’un arc de méridien equatorial en Amérique du Sud, 1899–1900, pp. 222, 223, Plate XIII, fig. 4.

619. George Frederick Kunz, “Folk-lore of Precious Stones,” Chicago, 1894; reprint from Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology; see p. 269.

620. George H. Pepper, “The Exploration of a Burial-room in Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico,” Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909, pp. 229, 230, 236, 237.

621. George H. Pepper. The plate is from the “American Anthropologist,” New Series, vol. vii, pl. xvii.

622. “The Turquois. A Study of its History, Mineralogy, Geology, Ethnology, Archæology, Mythology, Folklore and Technology.” By Joseph E. Pogue. Third Memoir, vol. xii, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., 1915, 162 p., plates 22, 4to.

623. Pogue, “The Turquois,” citing Russell, “The Pima Indians,” in 26th Annual Report of the Bureau of Amer. Ethnology, 1904–1905, p. 112.

624. “Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico,” ed. by Frederick Webb Hodge; Smithsonian Inst., Bur. of Am. Ethn., Bull. 30, Pt. II, p. 178; Washington, 1910.

625. W. J. Hoffman, “The Midêwiwin, or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibway”; 7th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–86, Washington, 1891, pp. 149–300, with many illustrations.

626. Loc. cit., Pl. XI, fig. 7, opp. 220.

627. W. J. Hoffman, “The Midêwiwin, or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibway”; 7th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–86, Washington, 1891, p. 277.

628. L’Abbé Banier and l’Abbé Mascrier, “Histoire générale des cérémonies, mœurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde,” Paris, 1741, p. 101.

629. Free Museum of Science and Art, Bulletin No. 4, Jan., 1898, p. 183 (with figures).

630. John Murdoch, “The Point Barrow Eskimo,” 9th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887–88, Washington, 1892, p. 435.

631. Ibid., p. 439, fig. 426.

632. Ibid., p. 438; see fig. 425.

633. Ibid., p. 439.

634. Hans Egede, “A Description of Greenland,” London, 1745, p. 194 (Eng. trans.).

635. David Crantz, “The History of Greenland”: London, 1767, vol. i, p. 216 (Eng. trans.).

636. Rasmussen, “The People of the Polar North,” Philadelphia, 1908, p. 139.

637. Ibid., p. 139.

638. J. G. Frazer, “Balder the Beautiful,” London, 1913, vol. ii, p. 155. See also by the same writer, “Folk-lore in the Old-Testament,” in Anthropological Essays, presented to E. B. Tyler, Oxford, 1907, pp. 148 sqq.

639. Sir George Grey, “Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery,” London, 1841, vol. ii, pp. 340, 341.

640. Bonney, Journ. of the Anthrop, Inst., vol. xiii, p. 130.

641. For further details concerning these strange ornaments, see the writer’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913, pp. 87–90.

642. Fernie, “Precious Stones for Curative Wear,” Bristol, 1907, p. 39.

643. A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, 1908, p. 293.

644. Grey, “Polynesian Mythology,” London, 1855, p. 132.

645. Elsdon Best, “The Stone Implements of the Maori,” Dominion Museum Bulletin, No. 4, Wellington, New Zealand, 1912.

646. Giglioli, “Materiali per lo studio della Età della Pietra,” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, pp. 79, 80; Firenze, 1901.

647. Ibid., pp. 82, 83.

648. “Folk Lore,” vol. xxiv, No. 2, July, 1913, Story sent to R. R. Marett by Mr. D. Jenness of Baliol College, Oxford.

649. Fraser, “The Golden Bough,” Pt. I, “The Magic Art,” London, 1911, vol. i, p. 164.

650. J. G. Frazer, “Balder the Beautiful,” London, 1913, vol. ii, p. 142; citing B. Julg, “Kalmückische Märchen,” Leipzig, 1866, No. 12, pp. 58 sqq.

651. W. L. Hildburgh, “Further Notes in Spanish Amulets,” in Folk Lore, vol. xxiv. No. 1, March 31, 1913, pp. 63–74; 2 plates.

652. W. L. Hildburgh, “Notes on Spanish Amulets,” Folk Lore, vol. xvii, 1906, pp. 454–472. See Plate VIII, fig. 29, opp. p. 462.