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Aaron, 102, 277, 300, 310, 318 Abdul Hamid, Sultan, 139 Abraham, diamond of, 377
luminous stones in his city, 161, 276 Abrasax (Abraxas), 126-130
meaning of name, 127 Acrostics expressed with stones, 359-
362 Adamas (diamond?), 39, 95, 157, 163
of high-priest, 278 Adam's Peak, Ceylon, gems from, 75 Adelbert, St., 164 Aelian, 161 Aetites, 34 Agalmatolite, 48
Agate, 51-54, 132, 236, 237, 265, 296, 305, 336
amulets in the Soudan, 54
amulets of, cut in Idar and Ober-
STEIN 54/ banded, 39, 233, 296 coral, for an air-ship, 53 eye-agates and "Aleppo Stones,"
39,
149, 150 gem of Gemini, 346 of Mercury, 350 of Venus, 349 in
breastplate, 276 with veinings figuring diadem, 267 Agatharcides, 66
Agricola, Georgius, 141 Agrippa, Cornelius, 181, 335, 336 Ahlamah, stone of breastplate, 297 Air-ship, with coral agate, 52, 53 Alabaster, 35, 36 Alaric, 283 "Albert," "Le Grand," "Le Petit,"
treatises on stones, 18 Albertus Magnus, 7, 17, 68, 77, 78,
146, 387 Albite, 48 "Aleppo Stones," 149
boil, 149 Alexander the Great, 68, 96, 125 Alexander II of Russia, 54 Alexandria, 125, 126, 130 Alexandrite, 54, 55
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Alexandrite,
cat's-eye, 334 Alfonso X, "Lapidario "of, 63,348,376 Alford, Henry, 304
Allanite, from Virginia, 366 Almandine garnet, 37, 59, 293 Amazonite,
from Maine, 365 Amber, 34, 55-58
in
deposits of Stone Age, 55, 57 in Mycenœ, 57 origin of, 55, 56
therapeutic effect of, 372 with initials naturally marked, 57, 58
Amboin, 62 American Museum of Nat. Hist., vi,
vii, 219, 234, 249, 254 Amethyst, 37, 119, 134, 145, 237, 243, 244, 297, 303, 305, 336 as antidote to drunkenness, 58,
371 as symbol of St. Matthias, 313 gem of Jupiter, 348
of
Pisces, 345 in breastplate, 276 legend of, 58, 59 ring of St.
Valentine, 257 symbolism of, 269 Amulets, Alexandrian, 125-129
Assyrian, of seven stones, 230 attraction of astral influence to,
340 Burmese, 266 canon on, at Council of Laodicea,
42 Chinese, of five stones, 40
directions for preparing, 39 Egyptian, 38, 226-229 etymology of word,
22 for heart, 227-229 for horses, 130 Gnostic, 125-129 in
Austro-Prussian War, 25 in Russo-Japanese War, 25 Japanese, called magatama, 265 Jewish, 43
of five stones, poncharatna, 241 of nine stones, naoratna, 241,
242-245 origin of, 19-24 sailors', 38, 39
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