RINGS HAVING SUPPOSED CHARMS OR VIRTUES, AND CONNECTED WITH
DEGRADATION AND SLAVERY, OR USED FOR SAD OR WICKED PURPOSES.
1. Antiquity of Amulets and Enchanted and Magical Rings;
Samothracian Rings; Double Object in Amulets; Substance and Form
of them. 2. Precious Stones and their Healing or Protective
Powers: Jasper; Diamond; Ruby; Carbuncle; Jacinth; Amethyst;
Emerald; Topaz; Agate; Sapphire; Opal; Cornelian; Chalcedony;
Turquoise; Coral; Loadstone; Sweating Stones. 3. Enchanted Rings;
those possessed by Execustus; Solomon’s Ring; Ballads of Lambert
Linkin and Hynd Horn. 4. Talismanic Ring; Elizabeth of Poland;
Ring against Poison offered to Mary of Scotland; Rings from the
Palace at Eltham and from Coventry; Sir Edmund Shaw; Shell Ring.
5. Medicinal Rings. 6. Magical Rings; Ariosto; Ring of Gyges; Sir
Tristram; Cramp Rings; Rings to cure Convulsions, Warts, Wounds,
Fits, Falling Sickness, etc.; Galvanic Rings; Headache and Plague
Rings; Amulet against Storms. 7. Ordeal. 8. Punishment in time of
Alfred. 9. Founding of Aix-la-Chapelle. 10. Ring on a Statue. 11.
Bloody Baker. 12. The Borgia Ring. 13. Rings held in the Mouth. 14.
Rings used by Thieves, Gamblers and Cheats. 15. Roman Slave. 93