Curious Lore
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary
作者：Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932
体例：段 章数：29
字数：596,264 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 29 段- That gems or stones, when applied to the body, exert an acti
- It seems likely that we have here the true explanation of th
- In his “Colloquy on Pilgrimages,” Erasmus makes one of the s
- The wearing of agate ornaments was even believed to be a cur
- Coral, which, for twenty centuries or more was classed among
- A Chinese jade ornament constituting a child’s amulet assume
- The ruby has many names in Sanskrit, some of them clearly sh
- [4 hieroglyphs] “abounding in graces” (very deeply cut as a
- A list of these symbolic designs is said to have been given
- The eye-agates were sometimes used to form the eyes of idols
- According to Pliny, the lychnis, perhaps a spinel, was so ca
- An indication that the usage of divination by means of a sil
- Not only the quality of the crystal had to be considered, bu
- The Armenians sometimes practised divination by watching the
- The discovery of the tomb of Childeric was made, May 27, 165
- It is not only in the works of the Fathers of the Christian
- The remarkable jade adze, generally known as the “Kunz adze,
- The monastery of Streoneshalh, later Whitby Abbey, was found
- From the stones which the high-priest wore (these were sardo
- Forming part of the treasure discovered in 1858 at Guarrazar
- The origin of the belief that to each month of the year a sp
- As the diamond does not appear to have been known to the anc
- Hence it is that the influence over human fortunes ascribed
- MARS. Represented sometimes with a banner and sometim
- The European writers on the medical properties of precious s
- I looked on my left half as þe lady me taughte
- Jordansmühl, Silesia, largest mass of European jade found at
- [65] Agatharcides, “De Mar1 Erythræo,” §2. The topaz of the
- [316] Shepharial, “The Crystal and the Seer,” London [1900?]