The magic of jewels and charms

121. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 566.

122. Ploss, “Das Weib,” Leipzig, 1895, vol. ii, p. 350.

123. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, pp. 564, 566.

124. Garcias ab Orta, “Aromatum historia” (Latin version by Clusius), Antverpiæ, 1579, p. 178. See also Valentine Ball in Proc. Roy. Ir. Soc., 3d Ser., vol. i, p. 662; Colloquy xliii, of the work of Garcias, translated from the Portuguese original.

125. William Jones, “Credulities Past and Present,” London, 1880, pp. 160, 161; citing “Panorama,” vol. vii.

126. D’Herbelot, “Bibliothèque Orientale,” La Haye, 1778, p. 229.

127. Rose, “Aristotle de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitsch. für D. Alt., New Series, vol. vi. 1875.

128. Ibid., p. 358.

129. Ibid., p. 370.

130. Ibid., p. 379.

131. Nona Lebour, “Amber and Jet in Ancient Burials,” reprint from Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Nov. 27, 1914, pp. 4, 5.

132. American Journal of Science, 4th Ser., vol. iii, pp. 1–13, New Haven, 1897.

133. Tiguri, 1565, f. 66.

134. Titi Livi, “Ab urbe condita,” lib. xxix, cap. 11.

135. “Adversus Gentes,” lib. vii.

136. Prudentius “Hymnus X,” 11, 156, 157. This writer was born in 348 A.D. and died about 410.

137. “Dissertation sur la pierre de la Mère des Dieux,” in Mém. de l’Acad. des Inscrip. et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxviii, p. 370; Paris, 1770.

138. Miers, “Fall of Meteorites in Ancient and Modern Times,” Science Progress, vol. vii, No. 8, July, 1898, p. 351.

139. Laufer, “Jade: A Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion,” Chicago, 1912, pp. 54, 55, 57, 63, 64; Field Museum of Natural History, Pub. 154, Archæological Series, vol. x.

140. Morris Jastrow, Jr., “Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens,” vol. ii, Pt. II, Giessen, 1912, pp. 689, 690.

141. Ibid., pp. 692–694.

142. Benzinger, Hebräische Archäologie, Freiburg i. B., 1894, p. 370.

143. Lenormant, “Lettres Assyriologiques,” Paris, 1872, vol. ii, p. 118.

144. Miers, “Fall of Meteorites in Ancient and Modern Times,” Science Progress, vol. vii, No. 8, July, 1808, p. 349.

145. E. F. F. Chladni, “Verzeichniss der herabgefallenen Stein- und Eisenmassen,” p. 5; Gilbert’s Annalen der Physik, vol. 1.

146. Plutarchi, “Vitæ,” Lipsiæ, 1879, p. 394; Lysander, 12.

147. C. Plinii Secundi, “Historia naturalis,” Venetiis, 1507, fol. 8, recto; lib. ii, cap. 60.

148. Cornelii Taciti, “Opera,” Lipsiæ, 1885, p. 52.

149. Philostratus, “Apollonius of Tyana,” trans. by Baltzer, Rudolstadt i. Th., 1883, p. 143 (iii, 59).

150. Lenormant, in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dict., des antiq. grecques et romaines, vol. i, Paris, 1873, p. 645.

151. F. Lenormant, in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dict. des antiq. grecques et romaines, vol. i, p. 645, Paris, 1873. See Fig. 739.

152. Aen. ii, 692–698.

153. De Mély, “Le traité des fleuves de Plutarche”; in Revue des Etudes Grecques, vol. v (1892), p. 334.

154. Suetonii, “Opera,” Lipsiæ, 1886, p. 203; Galba, 8.

155. This name signifies “Mountain-God” and its assumption by the emperor marked his devotion to the worship of the divinity animating the stone of Emesa, El Gabal, which Elagabalus had conveyed to Rome, where it remained until 222 A.D. This stone was regarded as a miniature representation of the sacred mountain near Emesa. The stone is figured on the aureus of the emperor Uranius Antonius. See Ch. Lenormant, Rev. Numismatique, 1843, p. 273, sq., Pl. IX, No. 1.

156. Lenormant, “Lettres Assyriologiques,” Paris, 1872, vol. ii, p. 123.

157. “Voyages d’Ibn Batoutah.” Translation by C. Defremery and B. R. Sanguinette, vol. i, 3d Ed., Paris, 1893, p. 314.

158. Sale, “The Koran” (Preliminary Discourse), Phila., 1853, p. 14.

159. Burckhardt, “Travels in Arabia,” London, 1829, p. 137.

160. Burckhardt, “Travels in Arabia,” London, 1829, p. 167.