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"St.
Paul's earth," 189 Star-sapphire, as Christmas gem, 286 set in hilt of
sword given King Constantino XII of Greece, 372, 373 Steatite, 300 Stemmmgen, 189 Stone Age in China, 76-78 "Stone of the Banner," 25 " Stones of the cobra," 231, 232, 235-
238 Stupra, celestial, Hindu shrine, 298 Suckling, Sir John, 104 Suetonius, 83 Suffrage Party, amazon-stone as
symbol of, 374 Sunstone, 387
Sutton, Edward Forrester, vii Swithin, St, 270, 276 Swords made of meteoric iron, 88-90,
92 Symbolic jewel composed of three
keys, 375 Sympathetic magic, doctrine of, 366
Τ
Ta'anbanu, angel of July, 247 Xabasheer, 149, 233, 236 Tacitus, 60, 81
Talismans, see amulets Tan Sien Ko, vii Tashnedernis, angel of February,
248 Tasmanien rain-makers, 34 Taurinus, St., 252 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste, 110, 185,
230, 231, 235 Teeolitho», 188 Teeth as amulets, 368
inlaid with precious stones, 406, 407 Tetragrammaton, 278 Thaïes, 63 Thebes 1 2
TheophVastus, 3, 53, 118, 173, 401 Theriaca Andromachi or "Venice
treacle," 121 "Thesaurus Pauperum" of Pope
John
XXI, 119 "Thetis's hair stone," 29 Thevenot, M. de, 231 Thiers, Mme.,
pearl necklace of, 389 Thomas, St., 268, 271 Thoth, named "Trismegistus
" by the
Greeks, 320
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"Thunder-stones," 76, 86, 83, 92, 94,
106-116,
161, 350 Thurston, Sir J., 366 Tiberius Cesar, 291, 292 Tibetan
jewelry, 341 Tiffany and Co., 373 Timoteus, St., 252 Toadetone,
162-167, 192 Tobit, Book of, 243, 250 Tofte, Kichard, 61 Tohargar,
angel of August, 247 Topaz, 11, 58, 124, 287, 290, 291, 372, 407
curative use of, 158, 159 etymology of name, 403 " Maxwell-Stuart," 404
Tourmaline, 51-60, 384, 407 as Peace Stone, 58 brought to Holland from
Ceylon,
52
experiments on, by JSpinus, 54 by Lémery in 1717, 55 from Mount Mica,
Maine, 51 letter of Franklin on, 57, 58 named Asehentrekker by Dutch,
52
story of, " My Tourmaline," by Helen Hunt Jackson, 51, 52 Trallianus,
Alexander, 144 Trephining in primitive times to obtain
skull-talismans, 332, 333 Tribes, Hebrew, meaning of their
names, 281-284 Trochites, 192, 193 Trowbridge, Breck, 373 Tse-boum, or incense vase, in Dalai
Lama's palace at Lhasa, 302 Tubuas, angel, 245
Turmali, Cinghalese name of tourmaline, 52 Turquoise, 20, 159, 291, 296, 310 amulets of, from Pueblo Bonito,
352 book on, by Dr. Joseph E. Pogue,
353 favorite stone in Tibet, 343, 344,
404 in ancient Egyptian tale, 316 in ancient Persian jewels, 324 inlays of, in Mexican masks, 306,
307 large pendant of, on Buddha's
statue, 304 meaning of Persian name of, 316
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