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1 Jean de la Taille de Bondaroy, “Le Blason de la Marguerite,” Paris, 1574.
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2 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” lib. i, cap. 25, Lug. Bat., 1636, pp. 87, 91.
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3 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” lib. i, cap. 26, Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 103.
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4 Mackey, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,” London, n. d., p. 144.
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5 Nicols, “Faithful Lapidary,” London, 1659, pp. 32, 33.
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6 Görres, “Die christliche Mystik,” Regensburg, 1840, vol. iii, pp. 190 sqq.
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7 Virna Sheard, “The Jewelled Princess,” in Canadian Magazine.
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8 De Mély, “Les lapidaires de l’antiquité et du moyen-âge,” vol. ii, “Les lapidaires grecs,” Paris, 1898, pp. 1-50.
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9 Lucas, “The Swallowing Stones by Seals,” Science, N. S., vol. xx, No. 512, pp. 537, 538; Report of Fur Seal Investigation, vol. iii, p. 68.
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10 Hoernes, “Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst,” Wien, 1898, p. 108.
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11 Giglioli, “Materiale per lo studio della ‘Età della Pietra,’” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, p. 83, Firenze, 1901.
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12 Rose, “Handleiding tot de Kennis van diamanten,” etc., Amsterdam, 1891, p. 110.
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13 “Della storia naturale delle Gemme,” Napoli, 1730, Vol. I, pp. 131-137.
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15 Paper by Dr. Paul Ferez in the Revue de l’Hypnotisme, Paris, No. 10, April, 1906, p. 306.
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16 Erasmi, “Colloquia,” Lipsiæ, 1713, pp. 597-8. Suggested by Pliny, lib. xxxvii, cap. 71-73.
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17 Morris Jastrow, “Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens,” vol. i, Giessen, 1905, p. 374.
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19 Delitzsch, “Assyrisches Wörterbuch,” Leipzig, 1896, p. 604.
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20 “Aegyptische Goldschmiedearbeit,” ed. by Heinrich Schäffer, Berlin, 1910, pp. 25-32; necklace figured on Pl. V, other objects on Pls. V-VII.
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21 Ibid., p. 14, Pl. II, figs. 3a, 3b.
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22 See Reisner, “Catalogue générale des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire: Amulets” Le Caire, 1907.
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23 Pitra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, vol. iii, p. 393.
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24 Kropatschek, “De amuletorum apud antiquos usu,” Gryphiæ, 1907, p. 24 (Paris papyrus, 2630).
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25 Surindro Mohun Tagore, “Mani Málá,” Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881, p. 943.
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26 Seler, “Codex Borgia: Eine altmexicanische Bilderschrift,” Berlin, 1904, vol. i, p. 16.
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27 Francisci Ruei, “De gemmis,” Tiguri, 1566, f. 4.
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28 “Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses; par un prêtre de l’Oratoire,” Paris, 1702, p. 320.
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29 Blum, “Das altjüdische Zauberwesen,” Strassburg, 1898, p. 91.
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30 A projection serving to fasten down the belt.
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31 Compleat Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Skeat, Oxford, 1894 vol. i, p. 139.
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32 Matthæi Paris, “Historia major,” London, 1684, p. 318.
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33 “Le Grand Lapidaire” of Jean de Mandeville, Vienna, 1862, pp. 126-128.
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34 Güdermann, “Das jüdische Unterrichtswesen,” Wien, 1873, p. 225.
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35 “Ethics of the Dust,” New York, 1886, p. 96.
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36 See also the writer’s pamphlet: “The Folk-Lore of Precious Stones,” Chicago, 1894; a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress held at the World’s Columbian Exhibition, and describing the Kunz Collection exhibited in the Anthropological Building there. This collection is now in the Field Museum, Chicago.
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37 King’s version in his “Natural History of Precious Stones,” London, 1865, p. 392.
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38 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 10.
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39 Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. 22.
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40 Albertus Magnus, “Le Grand Albert des secretz des vertus des Herbes, Pierres et Bestes. Et aultre livre des Merveilles du Monde, d’aulcuns effetz causez daulcunes bestes,” Turin, Bernard du mont du Chat (c. 1515). Liv. ii, fol. 8 recto.

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The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Crystal gazing, birth-stones, lucky stones and talismans, astral, zodiacal, and planetary, Project Gutenberg eBook #57978

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