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Ch. 4: Engraved Gems as Talismans

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	138 THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES

	the weak, especially of women and children, against the wiles of the spirits of darkness.²⁹ Rostand, in his "Chantecler," has enlarged this conception, and endows the cock with the proud conviction that it is to his matu-



	tinal chant alone that the world owes the daily recurrent phenomenon of the sunrise. In Palestine the Evil Eye is supposed to be the baleful gift of men who have light-blue eyes, more especially if "Elworthy, "The Evil Eye," London, 1895, pp. 353, 354.

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