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Amethystus, Amethyst

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36                   NATURAL HISTORY OF GEMS.
their name from this property.* Moreover, that if the names of the Moon or Sun bo engraved upon them, and they be thus hung about the neck from the hair of a baboon, or the feathers of a swallow, they are a charm against witchcraft. They are also serviceable to persons having petitions to make to princes : they keep off hail­storms and flights of locusts with the assistance of a spel which these doctors teach." Where it may be remarked that the names of the Moon and Sun must have been the mystic names of these luminaries emblazoned in a sacred Oriental language, for the same in Greek or Latin would have been too simple to captivate the faith of their dupes, and besides, never are to be seen on any similar relics. Doubtless we have here an allusion to the ÉÁÙ and ABPA2A2, words ofthat actual signification, and which in the following century appear on such countless multitudes of talismanic gems connected with Magian or with Egyptian super­stitions.
* A notion curiously illustrated by a four-sided Amethyst pendant (Blacas) presenting on each face a Bacchante in a différent attitude of frenzy : a fine Greek work.
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