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Eulalift, Si, 269
"Evil eye," 131, 265, 315, 320, 339,
344, 345-347, 367, 368 "Expanding stone," 45
F
Fabianue, St., 251, 253
Fairbanks, Arthur, vii
"Fairy stones," 37
Farrington, Ο. C, vii
"Fatima's hand," 347
Feavearyear, A. W., vii
Feldspar, 30, 77, 324
in " Book of the Dead," 318, 319
Felicissimus, St., 252
Félicitas, St., 251, 253, 274
F«lix, St., 252
Ferdinand III, Emperor, 15
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, vii
Filippus, St., 252
Filocalus, Furius Dionysius, calendar of, 251
Floating-stones, 223
Flower jewels, 342, 343
Foote, A. E., 101
Fossils and concretions, virtues of, 160-190
Fox, John, Jr.'s "Trail of the Lonesome Fine, 37
Foy, Sainte, statuette of, 261, 262
Francis I of Austria, 89
Franklin, Benjamin, on tourmaline, 67
Frederick III of Denmark, 126
French Academy of Sciences, 54
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Gabelchover, Wolfgang, 153, 158 Gabriel, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 250
334
Galactite, 3, 4 Galba, Emperor, 83 Galen, 136, 137, 146, 188, 232
Garcias ab Orta, 68, 204 Garcilasso de la Vega, 214 Garnet, 123, 291,
296, 309, 317, 330 "Gascoigne's powder," 127, 128 Gaster, 371 " Gem of
Sovranty " or " Gem of the
King of Kings," 11 Gem-cutters, American Indian, 381 George V, King, 362 George, St., 261, 274 legend of, 260 thalers, 260
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Gesner, Conrad, 4, 54, 73, 144
Gesta Romanorum, snake story from, 238
Giglioli, Enrico H., 364
Girasol, 291
Glœsum (amber), 60
Olossopetrœ, 161, 180, 188-190
Gnostics, magic jewels of, 328
" Godstones " buried with the dead, 23
"Golden Cacique" (El Dorado) at Lake Guatavita, 311
Gordian the Younger, Emperor, 326
Gorgonus, St., 252
Grammatias, variety of Jasper, 284
Green, Miss Bella Da Costa, vii
Gregory X, Pope, 119
Gregory XIII, Pope, 212
Gregory of Tours, his account of Paris talismans, 329
Guatavita, Lake of, treasures thrown in, 310-312
Guligas (bezoars) artificially induced by Dayaks óf Borneo, 217
H
Haberden, William, his researches on tourmaline, 56, 57
Hadrian, Emperor, 1
Hahedan, angel of October, 248
Hair-balls, 220, 221
Hajar al-hattaf, or "hen-stone," 181
Hajar al-hayyat ("madstone"), 225
Bajer aliKelb, "dog-stone," 11, 12
Hajer al-mathar, Arabic rain-stone, 5
Hammer-Purgstall, 89
Harrington, Sir James, 120
Haupt, Paul, 277
Haüy, Abbé, 56
Haye, Olivier de la, his poem on "Black Death," 120
Hei-tikis, carved jades of New Zealand, 361
Helena, Queen, 380
Helena St., 329
Heliotrope, 291
Hematite, 124, 125, 320
American Indian artefacts of,
382, 383 black, Abraxas gem of, 287 curative use of, 136-138
Heno, Iroquois god of thunder, 107
Henri II, of France, 334
Herculanus, St., 252
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