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Nash, Thomas, 166
Nautilus pearls, 391
Nebuchadnezzar I, 78
Necklace of the Egyptian Princess Sat-Hathor-Ant, XII Dynasty, 317, 318
NeshemrBixme, 320
New Caledonian stone amulets, 45
New Zealand jade, punamu or "green-stone," 361-363
Newton, Hubert Α., 72, 73, 74
Nicholas I, Emperor, 285
Nicholas, St., 275 legend of, 258
Nicholas, St., of Bari, "manna" of, 266
Nicostratus, St., 252
Noah's rain-stone, 4, 5
Nonnus, St., 252
Nordenskiold, Baron Ν. Α. Ε., 97
Norman, Robert, poem on loadstone, 66
Nung-gara, or Australian medicinemen, 17
Ο
Oleum succimi, 64
Ombria, 162, 197, 198
Onyx, 277, 335, 369
curative use of, 151-153
stone of Zebulpn, symbolical
meaning of, 282 wonderful cup of, belonging to Duke of Brunswick, 387
Opal, 372, 374, 407
favored by Queen Victoria, 375 parure of, for Empress Augusta, 375
Or champs, Baronesse d', 371
Osman, Augustin, 374
Ostrea Singapora, 391
Ostrites, 224, 225
Otilia, St., 267
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 381
Ovid, 131
Ovum anguitmm, 162, 197, 221-224, 226
Oyaron, Indian amulet-control, 354
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Paris, Matthew, 152
Paris talismans, Gregory of Toun'
account of, 329 Parthenus, St., 251 Pascal, Blaise, amulet of, 337, 338 Pater de sang, or "blood rosary,"
133 Patrick, St., 43, 225 Paul II, Pope, 126 Paul V, Pope, 254 Paul, St., 269, 275
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Malta, 161, 189 Pausanius, 2 "Peace Stone," 58 Pearls, 20, 120, 124,
126, 127, 277, 280, 291, 294, 299, 300, 304, 305, 330, 341, 380, 387
Arabic theory of genesis of, 388,
394
"cocoanut," supposed, 391 from Philippines, 391, 392 immense baroque,
392 Mme. Thiers' necklace of, 389 necklace of, in Persian grave,
324 of nautilus, 391 "powder," 390 Rumphius on supposed breeding
of, 392 story of a luminous, 390 story of, thrown into Venetian
canal by pearl-dealer, 393 strange tale of, 388, 389 Peary, Admiral Robert E., 96 "Pebble-mania," 19, 20
among birds, 20 Pebbles, ornamental, 19-31
worn
by Hindus, 37 Penel, angel, 246 Pepper, George H., 352 Peridot
(chrysolite), 281 Perkin Warbeck, 401 Perpetua, St., 251, 253 Persian
princess, jewels in her grave,
323-325 Pescadero Beach, Cal., pebbles from,
30'
Peter, St., 250, 251, 276, 290 Peter's, St., in Rome, 51 Pétrie,
Flinders, 317 Petrograd Museum of Natural History, 95 Petrus Hispanus
(Pope John XXI), 119
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Padparasham-gem (corundum) of
Ceylon, 395 Palladius, 64 Paré, Ambroise, 206, 207
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