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Margaret, St., 270, 275
Margarita, Queen of Italy, 380
Marguerite de Flandres, 335
Mariette, 279
Mark, St., 290
Marquette, Jacques, 35
Marriage-sword, Chinese ceremony of, 384, 385
Marshall, J. H., 299
Martial, 60
Martin, St., 271
and the Devil, legend of, 44
Mary of Scotland, 337
Mask, ancient Mexican, with turquoise inlays, 306, 307
Mas'udi's "Meadows of Gold," 321, 322
Matthias, St., 270
Meander River, magic stone of, 12
"Median stone," for colic, 144, 151
Medici, Catherine de', 332
her bracelet of charms, 334
Medicine-men, 348, 349, 353-358
cure
by dancing and howling, 357 in Australia, 17 medicine bag of, 356, 360
of the Kainuga Indians, Paraguay, 18 of New Guinea, 19
Medicine-women of Araucarian Indians, Chili, 351
Megara, sonorous stone at, 2
Megenberg, Konrad von, 12, 151
Memmia, St., 252
Memnon, Vocal, 1
Mentzel, Christian, 187
Mephniel, angel of January, 243
Mercato, Michele, 93, 212
Mesticai of the Malays, 17, 18
invulnerability conferred by, 18
Meteorites, 72-117
accidents caused by, 102-104
coins representing, 90, 91
collection of, in Vienna, 90
from Cape York, 96-98
from Kiowa Co., Kansas, 101, 102
from Willamette, Ore., 98, 99
of iEgospotami, 79, 80
of Bäcubrit, Mexico, 103
of Book of Joshua, 79
of Canon Diablo, 99-101
of Castrovilarii, Calabria, 93
of Diana Temple at Ephesus, 81
of Eisleben, 103
of Ensisheim, 73
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Meteorites, of Knyahinya, Hungary, 102 of Lahore, India, 92 of Luce, Dept. Marne, France, 94 of Magdeburg, 91 of Mecca (Black Stone), 73,
84-88 of Paphos, 81
of Pergamus, brought to Rome, 74 of Radacofani, Italy, 91 of Zanzibar, 71 Pallas, or Krasnoyarsk, 95 pwdre ser, or "star-rot" of
Welsh,
104-106 Swords made of, 88i-90, 92 " Verwünschte Burggraf " of Elbogen,
89, 90 Michael, archangel, 243, 245, 246,
250,
334 Midêwiwin, or Great Medicine Society of the Ojibways, 354, 355
magic stone of, 354 medicine bag used by, 356 Milinda, King, 11 Milo of
Croton, wore an alectoriu»,
179 Milprey, "thousand worms," Cornish
name
of a snake-stone, 227 "Mineral stone," for turning pebbles into
precious stones, 16 Mohammed, 74, 84 Mohammed Ben Mansur, 396, 397
Mohammed Ghazni, Sultan, 90 Moissan, Henri, 100 Monardes, Nicolo, in
jade, 139, 201,
203 Montezuma's gifte to Cortes, 305,
307, 309 Months, angels of the, 247 Moonstone, remarkable, of Pope Leo
X, 386 Moonstone Beach, Santa Catalina
Island,
pebbles from, 30 Moore, Thomas, 250 Morael, angel of September, 248
Morgan, Henry de, 323 Morgan, J. Pierpont, 185 "Mummy eyes," Peruvian,
352 Museum of University of Pennsylvania, 358
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Napoleon I, 96, 295 Napoleon III, Emperor, 330
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