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Catlta, George, 35, 8β
Catlinite, 35, 37
Cafe-eye, 11, 29
Cecil, Henry, 235
Cecil, Sir Robert, 214
Cellini, Benvenuto, 20, 378
Cerauniœ, 82
Ceylon, temple treasure in, 298> 299
Chalcedony, 30, 31, 123, 131, 287,
291, 290, 301, 303, 361 Chalchihuitl, 304, 305, 307, 348 Charlemagne, Emperor, 189, 255, 288, 290 talisman of, 329-331 Charles V, Emperor, 294, 306 Charles V of Prance, 177 Charles IX of France, 294 Charles the Bald, 288 Charm in old Italian MS., 327, 328 GheUdomu», or " swallow-stone," 119,
172 CheUmia, 170, 171, 198 Cheops, mummy of, decorated with
precious stones, 279 Chetbet, Egyptian name of lapis-
lazuli, 149 Chicken Itza, Sacred Well of, 307,
308 Chinkstone (phonolite), 2 Chladni, 95, 104 Chlorophane, 237
Christ, head of, engraved on emer­ald, 291, 292 Christian II of Denmark, his magic
pebble, 21 Christian IV of Denmark, 140 Christopher, St., 258, 269 Christy collection, 309 Christy, David, 218 Chrysocolla, 53
Chrysolite (peridot), 287, 291 a sacred stone, 379 in Shakespeare's Othello, 379 Chrysoprase, 123, 277, 287 Cinœdias, 109 Claudian's epigrams on rock-crystal,
32 Clavus, St., 252 Clemens, St., 252 Clement VII, Pope, 387 Clerc, G. O., vii Clothaire II, 262
Cochrane, Capt. Charles Stuart, 312 Coligny, Gaspard de, 207
Color, harmony of, between gown· and
jewels, 407 Columba, St, and white pebbles,
legend of, 24, 25, 156 Conrad III, King of the Germans,
290 Constantine the Great, 329 Constantine XII, of Greece, stai4·
sapphire in sword of, 372-373 Coral, 30, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 126, 298, 301, 304, 341, 371 amulets of, in Spain, 368 Crispi's amulet of, 339 curative use of, 131-133 greatly favored in Tibet, 343 in Benin, Africa, 379 ominous change of hue, 132, 133 selected for Dalai Lama's in­cense vessel, 303 "tincture of," 132 worn by Queen Helena of Italy, 380 Cornu ammoni*, 197 Cortes, Hernan, 305, 307 Corundum, 133
varieties of, 396 "Crab's eye," 167 "Crabstone," 121, 122 Crantz, David, 359 Crapaudine, or " toadstone," 164,
165 Crescentius, St., 252 Crispi, Francesco, 339 Crispin and Crispian, SS., 259, 273 Cross, jewelled, of Duke of Bruns­wick, 289 of Zaccaria, 290, 291 " Crown of the Virgin," 287 Crystal, magic, of a Fijian, 364-366 Crystal-balls as curative amulets, 25 Culin, Stewart, 358 Curative "crystals" of Australian medicine-men, 16 of Kainuga Indians of Para­guay, 18 of New Guinea medicine-men, 1» Curative use of gems, 118-159
for "Black Death"
plague, 120 Francesco India's opinion
of, 124,125 in Bohemia, 121 in Denmark, 126 in Leyden, 126, 127