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Ch. 12: Amethyst

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AMETHYSTS
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indicating that it was the belief of the ancients that anything drunk from cups of this mineral could never produce any deleterious effect. During the middle ages it long figured as a pious or episcopal gem and was long sacred to the Church.
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