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Baroda, Oaikwar of, 380
Bartholomäus Anglicus, 147, 394, 395
Bartholomew, Bt., 271
Basilla, St., 252
Battè ha-nephesh of Hebrews, 360
Bauhin, Caspar, 202
Bausch, 175, 176
Belaleazar, Sebastian de, 311
Belemnites, 112, 161, 191
Bellermann, Johann Joachim, 278
Belucci, Prof. Giuseppe, 107, 145, 200
Benzinger, 78
Berghem, Lodowyk van, 295
Berlin Academy of Sciences, 54
Bertholin, Caspar, 139
Beryl, 287, 317
curative use of, 130
stone of Gad, symbolical meaning of, 283 Bezoar, 13, 17, 123, 126, 160, 170, 201-220
American, 218> 219
etymology of name, 203
from monkeys, 203
from skull of rhinoceros, 211
genesis of, according to Peruvians, 210
mineral, 211
Occidental, 212-215
prices of, 204, 208, 214, 216, 218
Queen Elizabeth's, 215
Rudolph IPs, 215, 216
test of, as poison antidote, by Ambroiee Pare, 205-207 by Emperor Rudolph II, 208, 209 "Black magic," V9 " Black stone " of Kaabah at Mecca,
73, 84-88 Blaise, St., 256, 257, 267, 273 Blake, W. W., vii Bloodstone, 121, 286 Somare, Valmont de, 155, 217 "Book of the Dead," extracts from,
318-320 Boot, Anseimus de, 65, 144, 145, 151, 162, 165, 192, 199, 204, 223, 226 Borodino, battle of, 96 Borrichius, Plaus, 154 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 317 Boulder's, legends of, 38 sqq., 263 Boyle, Robert, 105, 125 Braddock, Charles, vii Brantóme, Seigneur de, 305, 306 Brereton, Sir William, 111
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Brezina, Aristides, 90
British Museum, 32, 307
Broca, Paul, 332
Broichan the Druid and St. Columba,
24, 156 Brontia, 162, 197, 198 Browne, Sir Thomas, on amulets, 314 Bruce, Robert, ß5 Brückmann, U. F. B., 127 Buoardites, 196 Buddha, gem on images of, 297
jewelled pagoda over sacred footprint of, 299
solid gold image of, 303, 304
vases offered to, 297 Bufonitis, or " toadstone," 163 Burckhardt, 85 Burgarde, St., 267
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy," on stone charms, 336
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Caftanzoglu, 373
CalUmus, inclusion in œtite», 174, 175
Callistratus, 62
Callistus, St., 252
Caloceri, St., 251
Candlemas Day, 269, 272
Canon Diablo meteorite, 99-101
diamonds in, 100, 101 Canticles, 284, 322 Cantimpré, Thomas de, 12, 130, 164,
172, 180, 285, 336 Cape York meteorites, 96-98
chemical composition of, 98 Carbuncle, 279, 387
curative use of, 130 luminous, story of, told by Cellini, 378 Cardano, Girolamo, 144, 167, 336 Carew, Sir George, 214 Carnelian, 291, 297, 300, 317, 324, 361, 368, 378 rings, Mohammed's good augury
of, 379 stone of Reuben, symbolical
meaning of, 281 used for amulets in ancient Egypt, 320 Carpoforus, St., 252 Carrington, Hereward, vii Catherine II, Empress, 387 Catherine, St., of Alexandria, 259, 295
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