Index
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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 amulets of, in Spain, 368 as Anglo-Saxon talisman, 331 banded, stone of Benjamin, symbolical meaning of, 283 curative use of, 129 dog’s head amulet of, from Mexico, 351 “eye-,” 315 idol of red, in Kaabah, 84 pebbles of, with natural markings, 377 “rainbow agate,” 377, 378
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 medallion transmuted into, 15 medal made from, 15, 16
410Alchemy, 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 account of, by Tacitus, 60 beads, 61–63 bulls of Romans, 60 crucifix of yellow, 295 curative power of, 62 electrical property of, 63 hair, 61 necklace of, as aid to longevity, 63 oil of, 64
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 engraved, in Egyptian amulets, 280 necklace of, ancient Egyptian, 317 stone of Dan, symbolical meaning of, 283
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 411fragments 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 figures of, on medieval gems, 245 guardian, 244, 246, 248, 249, 250 in Song of Moses, 250 Luther’s opinion of guardian, 250 Mohammedan, world-bearer, on ruby-rock, 248 not to be worshipped outside the church, 244 of months, in Sepher de-Adam Kadmah, 247, 248 seven good, and seven bad, 246, 247
Anglo-Saxon “Laece Bok,” of Bald, 331
412Anna, Santa, President of Mexico, 256
Anne, St., 253, 272 de Beaupré, shrine of, 254–256 jewel dedicated to, 256 relics of, 255, 256
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
413Baroda, 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 curative use of, 130 stone of Gad, symbolical meaning of, 283
Bezoar, 13, 17, 123, 126, 160, 170, 201–220 American, 218, 219 etymology of name, 203 from monkeys, 203 from skull of rhinoceros, 211 genesis of, according to Peruvians, 210 mineral, 211 Occidental, 212–215 prices of, 204, 208, 214, 216, 218 Queen Elizabeth’s, 215 Rudolph II’s, 215, 216 test of, as poison antidote, by Ambroise Paré, 205–207 by Emperor Rudolph II, 208, 209
“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
414Brezina, 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 jewelled pagoda over sacred footprint of, 299 solid gold image of, 303, 304 vases offered to, 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 diamonds in, 100, 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 curative use of, 130 luminous, story of, told by Cellini, 378
Cardano, Girolamo, 144, 167, 336
Carew, Sir George, 214
Carnelian, 291, 297, 300, 317, 324, 361, 368, 378 rings, Mohammed’s good augury of, 379 stone of Reuben, symbolical meaning of, 281 used for amulets in ancient Egypt, 320
Carpoforus, St., 252
Carrington, Hereward, vii
Catherine II, Empress, 387
Catherine, St., of Alexandria, 259, 295
415Catlin, 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 a sacred stone, 379 in Shakespeare’s Othello, 379
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
416Color, 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 amulets of, in Spain, 368 Crispi’s amulet of, 339 curative use of, 131–133 greatly favored in Tibet, 343 in Benin, Africa, 379 ominous change of hue, 132, 133 selected for Dalai Lama’s incense vessel, 303 “tincture of,” 132 worn by Queen Helena of Italy, 380
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 of Zaccaria, 290, 291
“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 of Kainugá Indians of Paraguay, 18 of New Guinea medicine-men, 19
Curative use of gems, 118–159 for “Black Death” plague, 120 Francesco India’s opinion of, 124, 125 in Bohemia, 121 in Denmark, 126 in Leyden, 126, 127 417of particular stones, 129–159 prices of stones, 123 Robert Boyle on, 125, 126
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 curative use of, 135 in Cañon Diablo meteorite, 99–101 said to have been given as poison in Baroda, 380 uncut, in “Sacred Shrine” of Chartres, 291 with cross effect in black and white, 296, 297
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
418Dolmens, 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 ancient, from Berenice, Egypt, 382 cast into sacred lake of Guatavita, Colombia, 311 curative use of, 135 dedicated to Venus, 305 engraved with head of Christ, 291, 292 in cathedral of Mainz, 295 of Hernan Cortés, 305 of Temple of Melkarth at Tyre, 81 stone of Levi, symbolical meaning of, 281
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
419Eulalia, 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 in “Book of the Dead,” 318, 319
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 legend of, 260 thalers, 260
420Gesner, 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 American Indian artefacts of, 382, 383 black, Abraxas gem of, 287 curative use of, 136–138
He-no, Iroquois god of thunder, 107
Henri II, of France, 334
Herculanus, St., 252
421Hermetes, 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 422Chinese 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 curative use of, 144, 145 Eskimo talisman of, 358 stone of Asher, symbolical meaning of, 283 talismanic virtue of, 284
Jehangir, Mogul Emperor, 92, 208, 301, 383, 405
Jeremiel, angel, 251
Jerome, St., 176, 274 on jasper talismans, 284 on jewels of Prince of Tyre, 280
Jerusalem, Temple of, 9 stones of the New, 70
Jessen, Peter, vii
Jet, 352, 386 curative use of, 146, 147
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
423Khusrau 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 curative use of, 147, 148
Lapis carpionis, 168, 169
Lapis Judaicus, 187, 194
Lapis lazuli, 78, 123, 124, 148, 149, 280, 284, 297, 298, 301, 317, 320, 324 in “Book of the Dead,” 318 large mass of, found in Indian grave, 386 religious use of, in Ecuador, 308 stone of Issachar, symbolical meaning of, 282
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
424Loadstone, 64–68, 119, 313 as elixir of youth, 68 oracle, De Boot’s, 65, 66 for the gout, 68 of Maniolæ Islands, 64 Robert Norman’s poem on, 66, 67
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. belief in, condemned by Church Councils, 38, 39 “day-stone” and “night-stone,” 70 of Guernsey, 40 of Island of Arran, 40 of Island of Fladda, 40 stone that attracts hair, 69, 70
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
425Margaret, 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 cure by dancing and howling, 357 in Australia, 17 medicine-bag of, 356, 360 of the Kainugá Indians, Paraguay, 18 of New Guinea, 19
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 426of 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 magic stone of, 354 medicine-bag used by, 356
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
427Nash, 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 curative use of, 151–153 stone of Zebulon, symbolical meaning of, 282 wonderful cup of, belonging to Duke of Brunswick, 387
Opal, 372, 374, 407 favored by Queen Victoria, 375 parure of, for Empress Augusta, 375
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
428Paris, 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 at Malta, 161, 189
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
429Philadelphia 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 for labrets and for nose-jewels in Africa, 398, 399 from Indian mounds, 26 from Lake George, 26 from Yucatan, 26 of large size, from North Carolina, 26 rutilated, 32 used by Araucarian medicine-women, 351 with inclusions, 30–34
430Quartz pebbles, 19 sqq. in Indian skeleton’s hand, 28 in prehistoric graves, 24 polished by water or glacial action, 21, 22 with inclusions, 29, 30
Quirinius, St., 267
R
Radium, 129
Raguel, angel, 245 of May, 247
“Rainbow agate,” 377, 378
“Rainbow-disease,” 114
Rain-making stones, 4–7 Arabic, 5 from Karmania, 5 of Africa tribes, 5, 6 of Australian tribes, 6 of Noah, 5 Persian, 5 stone crosses as, 7 Turkish, 4
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 as a rain-stone, 6, 7 Chinese name of, 398 curative use of, 153–157 immense vessels of, 398 “perfect jewel” of Japanese, 345 recommended in law suit by Aristophanes, 397 See also Quartz
Roe, Sir Thomas, 301
“Roland’s Foot,” stone at Toufailles, France, 43
Röntgen rays to detect amulets, 358
431Rosaries, 202 Hindu, 293 legend of, 293
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 of Pegu, 401 on mummy of Cheops, 279 Mohammedan Atlas stands on, 248 origin of Burmese, 400 stone of Judah, symbolical meaning of, 282 “The Merchant of the,” 400
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 emblem of Vishnu, 196 neither Sudra nor Pariah may wear, 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 Bartholomæus Angelicus on, 395 carved, from India, 300 curative use of, 157, 158, 184 in talisman of Charlemagne, 329 of Ceylon, 402 stone of Joseph, symbolical meaning of, 282 test of a, 394
Sarcophagus-stone, 3
Sard, 287
Sardonyx, 123, 291, 372 engraved gem of, 288
Saturninus, St., 252
432Sauvageot 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 Arabic legend regarding, 9 in the Bible, 7, 8 in Rabbinical legend, 8
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 in Buddhist legend, 332, 333 in neolithic times, 333 on bracelet of Catherine de’ Medici, 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
433“St. Paul’s earth,” 189
Star-sapphire, as Christmas gem, 286 set in hilt of sword given King Constantine XII of Greece, 372, 373
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 inlaid with precious stones, 406, 407
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
434“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 curative use of, 158, 159 etymology of name, 403 “Maxwell-Stuart,” 404
Tourmaline, 51–60, 384, 407 as Peace Stone, 58 brought to Holland from Ceylon, 52 experiments on, by Aepinus, 54 by Lémery in 1717, 55 from Mount Mica, Maine, 51 letter of Franklin on, 57, 58 named Aschentrekker by Dutch, 52 story of, “My Tourmaline,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, 51, 52
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 435offered 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
436Walpurgis, 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 in Indian mounds, 27 from Pueblo region of Southwest, 27
White stones in burials, 23, 24, 27 in Isle of Man, 34 oaths taken on, 35
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
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.