Index
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Kunz, George Frederick
Baccii, Andrea, 153
Bætyli, 76, 82
Bajazet II, Sultan, 291
Balas-ruby, 401, 404
Bannockburn, Battle of, 25
Barbara de Portugal, Queen of Spain, 295
Barbara, St., 273 legend of, 258
Barbosa, Duarte, 401
Barnabas, St., 268, 273
Baroda, Gaikwar of, 380
Bartholomæus Anglicus, 147, 394, 395
Bartholomew, St., 271
Basillæ, St., 252
Battê ha-nephesh of Hebrews, 360
Bauhin, Caspar, 202
Bausch, 175, 176
Belaleazar, Sebastian de, 311
Belemnites, 112, 161, 191
Bellermann, Johann Joachim, 278
Belucci, Prof. Giuseppe, 107, 145, 200
Benzinger, 78
Berghem, Lodowyk van, 295
Berlin Academy of Sciences, 54
Bertholin, Caspar, 139
Beryl, 287, 317 curative use of, 130 stone of Gad, symbolical meaning of, 283
Bezoar, 13, 17, 123, 126, 160, 170, 201–220 American, 218, 219 etymology of name, 203 from monkeys, 203 from skull of rhinoceros, 211 genesis of, according to Peruvians, 210 mineral, 211 Occidental, 212–215 prices of, 204, 208, 214, 216, 218 Queen Elizabeth’s, 215 Rudolph II’s, 215, 216 test of, as poison antidote, by Ambroise Paré, 205–207 by Emperor Rudolph II, 208, 209
“Black magic,” 29
“Black stone” of Kaabah at Mecca, 73, 84–88
Blaise, St., 256, 257, 267, 273
Blake, W. W., vii
Bloodstone, 121, 286
Bomare, Valmont de, 155, 217
“Book of the Dead,” extracts from, 318–320
Boot, Anselmus de, 65, 144, 145, 151, 162, 165, 192, 199, 204, 223, 226
Borodino, battle of, 96
Borrichius, Plaus, 154
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 317
Boulder’s, legends of, 38 sqq., 263
Boyle, Robert, 105, 125
Braddock, Charles, vii