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Khnsrau Nushirwan, 89
Khnsrau II, 69
K'ien-lung, Emperor, 302
King, Rev. C. W., 62, 328
Kircher, Athanasius, hie theory of
luaus natura, 50 Koenig, 99, 100 Kohut, 243 Krallenstein, 193 Krishna, 37
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Lacrima cervi, " stag's tear," 170
Laet, Johann de, 53, 54, 141, 190, 192
" Lake George diamonds," 26
Lamiœ, 190
Lanciani, 75
Languier, or "tester," 181
Laiines, Marshal, 295
Lapides oaymanum, 181
Lapis Armenus, 124, 149
curative use of, 147, 148
Lapis carpionis, 168, 169
Lapis Judaicus, 187, 194
Lapis-lazuli, 78, 123, 124, 148, 149, 280, 284, 297, 298, 301, 317, 320, 324 in " Book of the Dead," 318 large mass of, found in Indian
grave, 386 religious use of, in Ecuador, 308 stone of Issachar, symbolical meaning of, 282
Lapis Malacensis, 204
Lapis mattati, 181, 182
Lapis nephriticue (jade), 140
Laufer, Berthold, 304
Laurence, St., 267
Laurentus, St., 252
Lavoisier, 94
Lebour, Mrs. Nona, vii
Lémery, M. Louis, 54
Leo IV, Pope, 126
Leo X, Pope, 386
Leopold, Emperor, 16
Liceti, Fortunio, 344
Lingues Melitenses, 189
Linnseus, 54
"Lithica," Orphic poem on stones, 137, 224
Lithomania, 19
"Liver-stones," 186
Livia, wife of Augustus, 397
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Loadstone, 64-68, 119, 313
as elixir of youth, 68
oracle, De Boot's, 65, 66
for the gout, 68
of Manioke Islands, 64
Robert Norman's poem on, ββ, 67 Loch-mo-naire in Scotland, legend of,
155, 156 "Loda's stone of power," 35 Los Muertos, Zufii, jar with turquoise
inlays
found at, 309 Lough Neagh, Ireland, legend of yellow crystal there, 35
Louis XIV, 133 Louis XVI, 153 Louvre Museum, 280, 291, 389 Lucia, St.,
258, 271, 275
legend
of, 257 "Lucky stone," 28 Luminous stone of male cobra, 237 Lusus
Nature, stones bearing naturally marked images, 47-51 Luther, Martin,
249 Lychnis of Pliny (tourmaline?), 52 Lyahnitis, 176 Lysander, 79
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Maccabœus, Judas, 325 " Madstones," 225 sqq. •liafkat (Egyptian for turquoise!),
316 Magic stones, 1-71, 109 sqq.
belief in, condemned by Church Councils, 38, 39
"day-stone" and "night-stone," 70
of Guernsey, 40
of Island of Arran, 40
of Island of Fladda, 40
stone that attracts hair, 69, 70 Magnes (loadstone), 124 Magnusen, Finn, 198 Main de gloire, 334 Malachite, 148, 291
curative use of, 150 "Malediction stones" in Ireland, 46,
47 Mallet, F. H., 233 Mamoun, Khalif, 279 Maquam Ibrahim, sacred stone in
Kaabah at Mecca, 88 Marbodus of Rennes, 174 Marco Polo, 343
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