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Ch. 3: Talismanic Use of Special Stones

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62 THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES
buncle. In mythical fancies too this stone played its part, for dragon's eyes were said to be carbuncles.
Rumphius 23 states that in 1687 he was told by a chi-rurgeon that the latter had seen in the possession of one of the rulers in the island of Amboin a carbuncle said to have been brought by a serpent. The story ran that this ruler, when a child, had been placed by his mother in a hammock attached to two branches of a tree. While there a serpent crept up to him and dropped a stone upon his body. In gratitude for this gift the parents of the child fed and cared for the serpent. The stone is described as having been of a warm yellow hue, verging on red; it shone so brightly at night that a room could be illuminated by it. It eventually passed into the pos­session of a King of Siam.
Talisman ist Karneol
Gläubigen bringt er Glück und Wohl;
Steht er gar auf Onyx' Grunde,
Küss' ihm mit geweihtem Munde!
Alles Übel treibt er fort,
Schützet dich und schützt den Ort;
Wenn das eingegrabene Wort
Allah's Namen rein verkündet;
Dieb, zu Lieb' und Tat entzündet;
Und besonders werden Frauen
Sich am Talisman erbauen ! Μ
Carnelian is a talisman,
It brings good luck to child and man;
If resting on an onyx ground,
A sacred kiss imprint when found.
23 Rumphius, " Amboinsehe Rariteitkamer," Amsterdam, 1741, p. 308.
24 Goethe Westösterlicher Divan I, Segenspfänder.
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