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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Loadstone, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quartz 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
Rosaries, 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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Footnote 1:
Rosenfeld, “Singing and Speaking Stones”; Scientific American Suppl.
No. 1720, p. 395, Dec. 19, 1908.
Footnote 2:
Johannis Laurentii Philadelpheni Lydi quæ extant excerpta; ed. Hase,
etc., Lipsiæ et Darmstadii, 1827, p. 104.
Footnote 3:
“La Statue vocal de Memnon,” by M. Letronne, in Mém. de l’Institut de
France, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. i, 42, 1.
Footnote 4:
See Theophrasti, “De lapidibus (Peri lithôn),” ed. by John Hill,
London, 1746, pp. 15–17; cap. 10.
Footnote 5:
Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” Lib. xxxvii, cap. 59.
Footnote 6:
De Mély, in La Grande Encyclopédie; art. pierres précieuses.
Footnote 7:
Conradi Gesneri, “De rerum fossilium,” etc., Tiguri, 1565, fol. 49
verso.
Footnote 8:
Giovanni B. Rampolli, “Annali Musulmani,” vol. ix, Milano, 1825, p.
481, note 75.
Footnote 9:
“Exposition de ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable et des merveilles,” by
Abdorrashish, surnamed Yakuti, a geographical work of the fifteenth
century, transl. into French and published in Notices et Extraits des
Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi, vol. ii, pp. 452, 520, 534;
Paris, 1789.
Footnote 10:
F. Stuhlmann, “Mit Emin Pascha im Herz von Africa,” Berlin, 1894, p.
588.
Footnote 11:
S. Gason, “The Dieyeric Tribe” in “Native Tribes of South Australia,”
pp. 276 sqq.; see also: A. W. Howitt, “The Dieri and Other Kindred
Tribes of Central Australia.”
Footnote 12:
H. L. P. Cameron, “Notes on Some Tribes of New South Wales.” Journ. of
Anthrop. Inst., vol. xiv (1885), p. 362.
Footnote 13:
J. L. van der Toorn, “Het animisme bij den Minangkabaner der
Padangsche Bovenland, Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land-en Volkerkunde van
Nederlandsch Indie,” vol. xxxix, 1890, p. 86.
Footnote 14:
Martin, “Description of the Western Islands of Scotland,” in
Pinkerton’s “Voyages and Travels,” vol. iii, p. 594.
Footnote 15:
See Pinder, “De adamante,” Berolini, 1829, pp. 70 sqq., where the use
of the word _adamas_ to designate iron is said to have been
conjectured by Schneider, in his “Analecta ad hist. rei met. vet.,”
pp. 5, 6. Adamas as a man’s name occurs in the “Iliad,” xii, 140 and
xiii, 560.
Footnote 16:
Julius Ruska, “Das Steinbuch aus der Kosmographie des Muhammad ibn
Mahmud al Kazwini,” Beilage to the Jahresbericht of the Oberrealschule
Heidelberg, 1895–96.
Footnote 17:
Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. xxix.
Footnote 18:
Philostrati, “Vita Apollonii,” Lib. iii, cap. 8.
Footnote 19:
“The Questions of King Milinda,” trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids; Sacred
Books of the East, vol. xxxvi, Oxford, 1894, pp. 14, 303.
Footnote 20: