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Blue, gems in dreams, 357
significance of, 31
silver,
worn in Siam for Friday; dark for Saturday, 335 Bologna stone, 168
Bonderoy, Jean de la Taille de, 5 Book of the Dead, 38, 86, 225, 227,
228, 229, 290, 297 Book of Wings, Ragiel's, 132 Boot, Anseimus de, 56, 65, 106, 109,
110,
271 Borgia, Card. Stefano, 234 Borneo, breeding pearls in, 42 Boyle,
Robert, 169, 170, 171, 391 Braddock, Dr. Charles, vii Breastplate of
high-priest, 16, 120, 231, 307, 308, 309, 310, 319
names of, in ancient lists, 301
probable modern names of, 301
stones of, 275-302 Breastplate of Judgment, 16 Buddha, 238 Buddhabhatta, 71, 73 Budge, Dr. Ernest A. Wallis, vii,
227 Burgh, Hubert de, 44 Burke, Capt. John G., 202 Burma, amulets of, 266 Burton, Sir Richard Francis, star-sapphire of, 106
c
Caesar, Julius, 341
Cagliostro
(Giuseppe Balsamo), 198 Cairo Museum, 38, 201, 297 Calamine, religious
use of, 271, 272 Calculus, renal, curious poem on, 384 California
Midwinter Mem. Mus.,
San Francisco, vi Californite, 323 Callaie, 108
Cancer, zodiacal sign, 346, 354 Canrobert, Marshal, faith in amulets,
25
Cantimpré, Thomas de, 17, 59 Capricorn, zodiacal sign, 342, 347
Carbuncle, 33, 39, 145, 162, 168, 174, 243, 292, 305, 343, 357, 372
as symbol of Christ's sacrifice, 61
brought by serpent, 62
gem of Venus, 348
in breastplate, 276 Carcinia, 34
Cardano, Girolamo, 52, 70, 78, 83, 98, 151, 160, 264
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Camelian,
6, 36, 37, 119, 124, 133, 226, 227, 229, 265, 290, 291, 319 Arabic
inscription on, 63 engraved with zodiacal signs,
341 figures engraved in, by Israelites, 120 gem of Virgo, 346
of the Sun and Venus, 348 Goethe's praise of, 62 identified with odem-stone of
breastplate,
120 Mohammed's seal-ring of, 64 Napoleon's seal of, 64 Oriental use
against envy, 63 therapeutic effect of, 370 Carrington, Hereward, vii
Catherine de' Medici, girdle of, set
with
talismanic stones, 317 Cat's-eye, 65, 238, 242, 243, 244 alexandrite,
334 chrysoberyl, 333 quartz, 334 Cellini, Benvenuto, 154 Celonite, 134 Ceraunia, 34, 134, 162 Cernowitz, Hungary, opals of, 148 Cethel, 140
Ceylon, 54, 65, 75, 165, 252, 324 Chalazia (rock-crystal), 34 Chalcedony, 39, 65, 122, 134, 265, 303, 305, 313, 372 as symbol of St. Andrew, 312 gem of Capricorn, 347 Chalchiuhatl, "water of precious
stones," in Aztec, 40 Chalchiuitl (Jadeite?),
247, 251 Charles I of England, 262 Charles V of France, 388 Charles V
of Germany and the turquoise, 24 Charles XII of Sweden, 57 Chau
Ju-Kua, 165 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 43 Chelonites, 34
Chiastolite
(macie) as religious symbol, 270 therapeutic effect of, 270 Childeric,
crystal ball of, 219-221 Chinese amulets, 40, 84-87 Chin T'sang Khi, of
loadstone, 95 Chirocrates, 93
Chlorastroüte, from Minnesota, 365 Chlorophane, luminescence of, 172, 173
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