Chapter II
, pp. 106–116.
Footnote 325:
Anselmi Bœtii de Boodt, “Gemmarum historia,” Hanoviæ, 1609, p. 52.
Footnote 326:
Rose, “Aristoteles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” Zeitschr. für d. Alt., New Series, vol. vi, 1875, pp. 373, 374.
Footnote 327:
Petra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, p. 370.
Footnote 328:
“Le Grand Lapidaire de Jean de Mandeville.” From the edition of 1561, ed. by J. S. del Sotto, Vienne, 1862, p. 90.
Footnote 329:
In Konrad von Megenberg’s “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 437.
Footnote 330:
Erasmi, “Colloquia,” Lipsiæ, 1713, p. 596.
Footnote 331:
Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 814.
Footnote 332:
Lemnii, “De miraculis occultis naturæ,” Francofurti, 1611, pp. 212, 213.
Footnote 333:
Mizauld, “Hundert curieuse Kunst-stücke,” in Martius’ “Unterricht von der Magiæ Naturali,” Leipzig, 1717, p. 290.
Footnote 334:
Smith, “Jewellery,” London, 1908, p. 151.
Footnote 335:
“Anatomy of absurditie,” 1589; p. 40 of Collier’s reprint. Lean’s Collectanes, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 643.
Footnote 336:
Lupton, “One Thousand Notable Things.”
Footnote 337:
Encelii, “De re metallica,” Francofurti, 1557, pp. 219, 220.
Footnote 338:
Idem, pp. 218, 219. See also p. 121 of the present book.
Footnote 339:
Cardani, “De subtilitate,” Basilæ, 1554; lib. vii, p. 211.
Footnote 340:
Traité des Simples of Ibn Al-Beithar in “Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale,” vol. xxiii, pp. 416–417; Paris, 1877.
Footnote 341:
Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xi, cap. 79.
Footnote 342:
Encelii, “De re metallica,” Francofurti, 1557, p. 218.
Footnote 343:
Lemnii, “De miraculis naturæ,” Francofurti, 1611, p. 213.
Footnote 344:
Ibid., lib. xxxvii, cap. 56.
Footnote 345:
Ibid., lib. xxix, cap. 38.
Footnote 346:
Ibid., lib. xxxvii, cap. 60.
Footnote 347:
Danielis Sennarti, “Epitome naturalis scientiæ,” Francofurti, 1650, lib. v, cap. 4, pp. 438, 439; citing Scaliger, Exercit. 112.
Footnote 348:
G. Rollenhagen, “Wahrhaffte Lügen von Geistlichen und Naturalichen Dingen,” Wahrenberg, 1680, p. 93.
Footnote 349:
Plinii, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 56.
Footnote 350:
Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. xxviii.
Footnote 351:
Ibid., fol. xxiv.
Footnote 352:
C. Plinii Secundi, “Naturalis historia,” ed. Janus, Lipsiæ, 1880, p. 249, lib. xxx, cap. 11.
Footnote 353:
In Konrad von Megenberg’s version “Buch der Natur,” ed. Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 440.
Footnote 354:
Rev. Oswald Cockayne, “Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England,” London, 1865, vol. ii, p. 307 (Bk. iii, cap. i, of “Laece Boc”).
Footnote 355:
“Naturalis historia,” lib. x, cap. 4, and lib. xxx, cap. 44.
Footnote 356:
Theophrasti, “De lapidibus” (Peri lithôn), ed. by John Hill, London, 1746, p. 16; cap. 10; see Hill’s note, pp. 16–19.
Footnote 357:
Marbodei, loc. cit.
Footnote 358:
Aëtii, Tetrabiblos, Basileæ, 1542, p. 77.
Footnote 359:
Conradi Gesneri, “De figuris lapidum,” Tiguri, 1565, pp. 142, 143; with figures of ring. Pliny already mentions the callimus, “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvi, cap. 39.
Footnote 360:
Bauschii, “De lapide ætite,” Lipsiæ, 1665, p. 64.
Footnote 361:
Ibid., p. 9.
Footnote 362:
Ibid., pp. 9, 10.
Footnote 363:
Ibid., pp. 11, 12.
Footnote 364:
Albert Hartshorne, F.S.A., in Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries of London, Sec. Series, vol. xxii, p. 517, May 27, 1909.
Footnote 365:
MS. 8356 of the Bibliothèque Nationale, f. LXXII, verso.
Footnote 366:
F. de Mély La Grande Encyclopédie, vol. xxvi, p. 884.
Footnote 367:
Julius Ruska, “Das Steinbuch des Aristoteles,” Heidelberg, 1912, p. 4, citing Petermann, “Reisen im Orient,” vol. ii, p. 132.
Footnote 368:
Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, p. 94, note. (Figures on pp. 94 and 95.)
Footnote 369:
Lacroix, “Minéralogie de la France,” Paris, 1893–1910, vol. iii, p. 399.
Footnote 370:
Lemnii, “De miraculis naturæ,” Francofurti, 1611, p. 213.
Footnote 371:
In Konrad Von Megenberg’s version, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 435.
Footnote 372:
The writer erroneously derives the name from the Latin verb _allectare_, the true derivation being from the Greek ἀλέκτωρ, a cock.
Footnote 373:
Guiffrey, “Inventaires du Duc de Berry,” vol. i, p. 166.
Footnote 374:
Julius Ruska, “Das Steinbuch aus der Kosmographie des Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Kazwînî,” Beilage to the Jahresbericht of the Oberrealschule, Heidelberg, 1895–96, p. 15.
Footnote 375:
Chabœuf, “Charles le Téméraire à Dijon,” 1474; in Mém. de la Soc. burg. géog. et hist., vol. xviii, p. 137.
Footnote 376:
Monardes, “Semplicium medicamentorum ex novo orbe delatorum historia” (Latin version by Clusius), Antverpiæ, 1579, p. 51.
Footnote 377:
Valentini, “Museum museorum, oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Frankfurt am Main, 1714, Bk. III, cap. 27, §§ 1, 4.
Footnote 378:
W. L. Hildburgh, “Further Notes on Spanish Amulets,” in Folk Lore, vol. xxiv, No. 1, p. 70, March 31, 1913. Sec. Plate I, Fig. 27.
Footnote 379:
Encelii, “De re metallica,” Francofurti, 1557, p. 219.
Footnote 380:
See text in Axel Garboe’s “Kulturhistoriske Studier over Ædelstene,” Kjbenhavn og Kristiana, 1915, p. 56, note from Simon Paulli, “Quadripartitum botanicum,” Argentorati, 1667, p. 163.
Footnote 381:
Oswaldus Crollius, “Basilica chymica,” Frankfurt, 1623, p. 213.
Footnote 382:
“Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier,” Pt. II, Paris, 1678, p. 470; liv. ii, chap. 24.
Footnote 383:
Williamson, “Catalogue of the Collection of Jewels and Precious Works of Art, the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan,” London, 1910, pp. 12–14.
Footnote 384:
Caspar Neumann, “Disquisitio de ambra grysea,” Dresden, 1736, pp. 80, 81.
Footnote 385:
Gimma, “Della storia naturale delle gemme,” Napoli, 1730, vol. i, p. 479.
Footnote 386:
Christiani Mentzelii, “Lapis Bononensis,” Bilefeldiæ, 1675, p. 47.
Footnote 387:
Mercati, “Metallotheca Vaticana,” Romæ, 1719, p. 227.
Footnote 388:
Plinii, “Historia Naturalis,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 68.
Footnote 389:
Ibid., lib. xxxvi, cap. 35. See also Dioscorides V, 155; Ætius II, 19.
Footnote 390:
Claudii Galeni, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Kuhn, Lipsiæ, 1826, vol. xii, p. 199. De simplic. med., lib. vii, cap. 2.
Footnote 391:
Valentini, “Museum museorum, oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Frankfurt am Main, 1714, lib. i, cap. 24, § 2.
Footnote 392:
“Museum Wormianum,” Lug. Bat., 1655, pp. 7–9.
Footnote 393:
Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, lib. iv, cap. 10, p. 600.
Footnote 394:
“Museum Wormianum,” Lug. Bat., 1655, p. 65.
Footnote 395:
This is the fossilized horny part of the tail of an extinct cuttlefish, and numerous specimens have been found in the marl of New Jersey as well as in many other places.
Footnote 396:
Gesneri, “De figuris lapidum,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 89, verso, 90, recto.
Footnote 397:
Mercati, “Metallotheca Vaticana,” Romæ, 1719, pp. 138–139. Figure on p. 138.
Footnote 398:
Andree, “Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche,” New Ser., Leipzig, 1889, p. 33.
Footnote 399:
Reichii, “Medicina Universalis” [Vratislaviæ, 1691], p. 76. See Fig. 4, opp. p. 72.
Footnote 400:
De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” ed. Toll, Lug. Bat., 1647, p. 410; lib. ii, cap. ccxxvii, and also De Laet, “De gemmis et lapidibus,” Lug. Bat., 1647, p. 138.
Footnote 401:
Ibid., p. 300; lib. ii, cap. cxlviii.
Footnote 402:
Valentini, “Museum museorum, oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Frankfurt am Main, 1714, vol. ii, p. 11.
Footnote 403:
See, in regard to this stone, Oppert, “Der Salâgrâma-Stein,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, XXXIV Jahrgang, Berlin, 1902, pp. 131–137.
Footnote 404:
Magnusen, “Om en Steenring med Runeindskrift,” Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, Copenhagen, 1838–1839, p. 133.
Footnote 405:
Valentini, “Museum museorum, oder die vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Frankfurt am Main, 1714, vol. ii, p. 12.
Footnote 406:
Reichii, “Medicina universalis” [Vratislaviæ, 1691], p. 75. See Fig. 3, opp. p. 72.
Footnote 407:
Peringskiold, “Wilkina Saga eller historia on Konung Diedrich of Bern,” Stockholmis, 1715, pp. 57, 58.
Footnote 408:
Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 100–104.
Footnote 409:
Nicolo Monardes, “Delle cose que vengono portate dall’Indie occidentali,” Venetia, 1575, pp. 95–6.
Footnote 410:
Ibid., pp. 104–5.
Footnote 411:
Caspar Bauhini, “De lapidis bezaaris ortu natura,” etc., Basileæ, 1625, p. 3.
Footnote 412:
Museum Brittanicum, John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, London, pp. 50–51.
Footnote 413:
De Boot, “De lapidibus,” ed. Toll, Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 367.
Footnote 414:
“De lapidibus,” Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 370. See also Mercati, “Metallotheca Vaticana,” Romæ, 1719, p. 179, with figure of stone from hedgehog.
Footnote 415:
Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 809.
Footnote 416:
Ibid., p. 809.
Footnote 417:
Ambroise Paré, “Œuvres Complètes,” Paris, 1841, vol. iii, pp. 341, 342.
Footnote 418:
Engelberti Kaempferi, “Amœnitatum exoticarum fasc. V,” Lemgoviæ, 1712, pp. 402, 403.
Footnote 419:
Andreæ Baccii, “De gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis,” Francofurti, 1603, p. 193; Latin version by Wolfgang Gabelchover of the original Italian.
Footnote 420:
Kaempferi, “Amœnitatum exoticarum fasciculi V,” Lemgoviæ, 1712, pp. 400, 401.
Footnote 421:
The Tûzuk-i-Jahangiri or memoirs of Jehangir trans. by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 240; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.
Footnote 422:
“Voyage d’Ethiopie”; in Lettres édiflantes et curieuses, IV Recueil, Paris, 1713, p. 103.
Footnote 423:
De Acosta, “Histoire Naturelle et Morale des Indes,” tr. by Cauxois, Paris, 1600, f. 206 r. and v.
Footnote 424:
Von Hammer, “Auszüge aus dem persischen Werke, Buch der Edelsteine, von Mohammed ben Manssur,” in Fundgruben des Orients, vol. vi, p. 134; Wien, 1818.
Footnote 425:
Boccone, “Recherches et observations naturelles,” Amsterdam, 1674, pp. 238, 239.
Footnote 426:
F. Nix, in Tijdschrift voor Ind. Taal, Land en Volk, vol. v, p. 151.
Footnote 427:
Julii Reichelti, “De Amuletis,” Argentorati, 1676, p. 75.
Footnote 428:
Mercati, “Metallotheca Vaticana,” Romæ, 1719, p. 175.
Footnote 429:
Valentini, “Museum museorum, oder Vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Frankfurt am Main, 1714, bk. iii, cap. 13, §§ 1, 2, p. 446.
Footnote 430:
Pancirollus, “The History of Many Memorable Things,” London, 1715, p. 288.
Footnote 431:
Ibid., loc. cit.
Footnote 432:
R. Verneau and P. Rivet, “Ethnologie ancienne de l’Equateur,” Paris, 1912; vol. vi of Mission du service géologique de l’armée pour la mesure d’un arc de méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud, 1899–1906, pp. 235, 236; figure (nat. size) on p. 235.
Footnote 433:
Historical Manuscripts Commission, MSS. of the Marquis of Salisbury, Pt. V, London, 1894, p. 3.
Footnote 434:
Archæologia, vol. xxi, p. 153, London, 1837. From Warrant of Indemnity given by King James I to the guardians of the crown jewels.
Footnote 435:
Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, vol. xx, Pt. II, pp. lxv, xcvii, Wien, 1899.
Footnote 436:
Figured in Jeweler’s Circular Weekly, Dec. 17, 1913, p. 53; Charles A. Brassler, “Gold Mounted Specimens of Bezoar.”
Footnote 437:
Skeat, “Malay Magic,” London, 1900, pp. 274 sqq.
Footnote 438:
Chau Ju-Kua, “Chu-fan-chi” (“A Description of Barbarous Peoples”), trans. by Friedrich Hirth and W. W. Rockhill, St. Petersburg, 1911, p. 16, and p. 90, note 7.
Footnote 439:
Von Dewall, “Aanteekeningen omtrent de Noordoostkust van Borneo;” Tijdschrift voor Ind. Taal. Land en Volk, vol. iv, p. 436.
Footnote 440:
Valmont de Bomare, “Dictionnaire raisonné universel,” Paris, 1773, p. 556.
Footnote 441:
Edwards, “History and Poetry of Finger Rings,” New York, 1855, pp. 110, 111.
Footnote 442:
“Scientific American,” vol. xv, No. 19, p. 299; November 3, 1866.
Footnote 443:
Dr. Learned, “Morocco and the Moors,” 1876, p. 281.
Footnote 444:
S. de Vries, “Curieuse Aenmerkingen der byzonderste Oost en West-Indische Verwonderens-waerdige Dingen,” Utrecht, 1682, Pt. II, pp. 912, 913.
Footnote 445:
See Ledra Hazlit, M.D., “Hair-balls of the Stomach and Intestines,” Jour. A. M. A., vol. lxii, No. 2, pp. 107–110, with illustration; and G. A. Moore, “Hair Cast of the Stomach with Respect of a Case,” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Jan. 1, 1914.
Footnote 446:
Plinii, “Naturalis Historia,” lib. xxix, cap. 12.
Footnote 447:
Kunz, Dept. of Mining Statistics.
Footnote 448:
Johann Turi, “Muittalus samid birra; en bog om Lappernas liv.”; text, and Danish trans. by Emilie Demnant, Kjøbenhavn, 1911, p. 184 (p. 62 of text).
Footnote 449:
Tertulliani, “Opera Omnia,” Parisiis, 1879, vol. i, col. 1425, De cultu feminarum.
Footnote 450:
“Lithica,” lines 336 sqq.
Footnote 451:
The fyrste boke of the introduction of Knowledge made by Andrew Borde of Psysycke Doctore. Ed. by Furnival, London, 1870, p. 121. Early English Text Soc., Extra Series No. X.
Footnote 452:
Wirt Sikes, “British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Myths, Legends and Traditions,” London, 1880, p. 366.
Footnote 453:
Julius Ruska, “Das Steinbuch aus der Kosmographie des Muḥammad ibn Mahmud al-Kazwînî,” Beilage to the Jahresberichte of the Oberrealschule, Heidelberg, 1895–96, p. 15.
Footnote 454:
Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, p. 145; quoting Largeau, “La Sahara algérienne,” p. 80.
Footnote 455:
“Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, pp. 347–349.
Footnote 456:
Daniel Wilson, “The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland,” Edinburgh, 1851, pp. 303, 304. Two specimens figured on p. 304.
Footnote 457:
John Brand, “Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain,” London, 1849, vol. iii, p. 371.
Footnote 458:
Wirt Sikes, “British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Myths, Legends and Traditions.” London, 1880, p. 360.
Footnote 459:
J. G. Frazer, “Balder the Beautiful,” London, 1913, vol. i, p. 16.
Footnote 460:
Arakel, “Livre d’histoire,” chap. liii; in Collection d’historiens armeniens, French transl. by M. Brosset, St. Petersburg, 1874, vol. i, p. 545.
Footnote 461:
F. de Mély, “Les lapidaires de l’antiquité et du moyen âge,” vol. i, “Les lapidaires chinois,” Paris, 1896, pp. 237–238.
Footnote 462:
“Account of the Snake Stone,” in Lancet, vol. 177, London, July-Dec. 1909, p. 1478.
Footnote 463:
“Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier,” Pt. II, Paris, 1678, pp. 410, 411; Bk. II, ch. xxiv.
Footnote 464:
“The Travels of M. de Thevenot into the Levant,” London, 1686, Pt. III, p. 32; Bk. I, chap. 18.
Footnote 465:
Davy, “An Analysis of the Snake-stone,” Asiatic Researches, vol. xiii, p. 318; Kaempfer, “Amoen. Exit.,” pp. 395–397; cited in Yule-Burnell, “A Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Other Phrases,” London, 1886, pp. 643, 644.
Footnote 466:
“Jungle Life in India,” p. 83.
Footnote 467:
Redi, “Experimenta,” Amstelodami, 1675, pp. 4–8.
Footnote 468:
Edinburgh Philos. Journal, No. 1, p. 147; Philos. Trans., cix, p. 283; and “The Natural History and Properties of Tabersheer,” 1828; Edinburgh Journal, viii, p. 288.
Footnote 469:
Jour. de Pharmacies, xxvii, pp. 81, 161, 252; and Phil. Mag., x, p. 229.
Footnote 470:
Nature, xxxv, p. 437.
Footnote 471:
“Der Tabixir in seiner Bedeutung für die Botanik, Mineralogie, und Physik”; X. Sammlung. Naturwissenschaftlicher Vorträge, Berlin, 1887.
Footnote 472:
Tavernier, “Voyages en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes,” Paris, 1718, vol. ii, p. 392; liv. ii, chap. 24.
Footnote 473:
Engelberti Kaempferi, “Amœnitatum exoticarum fasciculi V,” Lemgoviæ, 1712, pp. 395, 396.
Footnote 474:
Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” 2d ed., New York, 1892, p. 183.
Footnote 475:
Rumphius, “D’Amboinsche Rariteitskamer,” Amsterdam, 1741, pp. 303–305.
Footnote 476:
“Die Gesta Romanorum,” ed. Wilhelm Dick, Erlangen, 1890, p. 127.
Footnote 477:
Dr. H. C. White, “The Chemical and Physical Characters of the So-called ‘Mad-Stones,’” British Association for the Advancement of Science, 73d Report, Meeting of 1903 at Smithfield, London, 1904, p. 605.
Footnote 478:
“Lancet,” vol. 164, Jan.-June, 1903, p. 343.
Footnote 479:
American Journal of Science, vol. xxxiv, Dec., 1887. See also Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” New York, 1892, p. 144.
Footnote 480:
Leipsic, 1866.
Footnote 481:
Kohut, loc. cit., p. 25.
Footnote 482:
Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne, ed. by Dom Fernand Cabrol and Dom H. Leclercq, vol. i, Pt. II, Paris, 1907, col. 2088.
Footnote 483:
Ibid., col. 2089.
Footnote 484:
Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne, ed. by Dom Fernand Cabrol and Dom H. Leclercq, vol. i, Pt. II, Paris, 1907, cols. 2089, 2090.
Footnote 485:
Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne, ed. by Dom Fernand Cabrol and Dom H. Leclercq, vol. i, Pt. II, Paris, 1907, cols. 2088, 2089.
Footnote 486:
Macarius (L’Heureux), “Abraxus seu Apistopistus,” Antwerp, 1657, Plate XIX, No. 78 (Gorlæus, 1695, Pl. CCXVIII, No. 430).
Footnote 487:
Zunz, “Die gottesdienstliche Vorträge der Juden,” Berlin, 1832, p. 167. Zunz conjectures that Eleazar of Worms (1176–1238) may have written a portion of this work.
Footnote 488:
“Sepher de-Adam Kadmah,” Amsterdam, 1701, fol. 34 verso. The interpretations of the several names are from Schwab’s “Vocabulaire de l’angélologie,” Paris, 1897, except in the case of Ragael, where Schwab gives “angel of the moment.”
Footnote 489:
Barrett, “The Magus,” London, 1801, p. 138.
Footnote 490:
Weber, “Jüdische Theologie,” 2d ed., Leipzig, 1897.
Footnote 491:
Lane, “Arabian Society in the Middle Ages,” ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, London, 1883, p. 106.
Footnote 492:
Schindler, “Der Aberglaube des Mittelalters,” Breslau, 1858, p. 4.
Footnote 493:
Peschel, “Völkerkunde,” Leipzig, 1885, p. 272. Quoted from Winwood Reade’s “Savage Africa.”
Footnote 494:
Achelis, “Die Martyrologien,” p. 8.
Footnote 495:
Parmele, “Tothe-Lore,” reprint from the International Dental Journal, January, 1899, p. 14.
Footnote 496:
Symeonis Logothetæ, cognomento Metaphrastæ, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1864, vol. iii, col. 315.
Footnote 497:
Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum, Bononiæ,” 1648, p. 653.
Footnote 498:
Thoms, “Anecdotes and Traditions,” London, 1839, p. 103 (Camden Soc. Pub.).
Footnote 499:
See plate in the present writer’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, 1913, opp. p. 356.
Footnote 500:
Mlle. Marie König, “Poupées et légendes de France,” Paris, n. d., pp. 77–80.
Footnote 501:
St. Louis Democrat, 1905.
Footnote 502:
De Lespinasse, “Les métiers et corporations de la ville de Paris,” Paris, 1892, p. 11.
Footnote 503:
Nature, vol. lxxxvi, p. 429; Oct. 6, 1910.
Footnote 504:
Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 113–119. Figures.
Footnote 505:
Pettigrew, “On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery,” p. 36. (Quotation from Melton, “Astrologaster,” p. 20.)
Footnote 506:
Notes and Queries, 2d Series, vol. viii, London, 1859, p. 242.
Footnote 507:
Wehrenfels, “A Dissertation on Superstition,” p. 36; prefixed to “Occasional Thoughts on the Power of Curing the King’s-Evil,” London, 1748.
Footnote 508:
Lean’s Collectanea, vol. i, Bristol, 1902, pp. 373–384.
Footnote 509:
Johann Joachim Bellermann, “Die Urim und Thummim, die ältesten Gemmen,” Berlin, 1824, pp. 21, 22. For a full account of the breastplate see the present writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913, chap. viii, pp. 275–306.
Footnote 510:
Wallace-Dunlop, “Glass in the Old World,” London, n. d., p. 6.
Footnote 511:
From “Jewellers’ Circular Weekly,” Nov. 12, 1913.
Footnote 512:
Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, cols 543, 544.
Footnote 513:
Sometimes believed to be rock-crystal.
Footnote 514:
Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, col. 544.
Footnote 515:
A stained or colored massive quartz.
Footnote 516:
Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, col. 545.
Footnote 517:
Ibid. col. 544.
Footnote 518:
Konrad von Megenberg’s version, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 459.
Footnote 519:
The Complete Ceremonies and Procedures Observed at the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England, London, n. d., p. 28.
Footnote 520:
Sanctorum Hildefonsi, Leodegarii, Juliani, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1882, coll. 283–318.
Footnote 521:
Adolf Furtwängler, “Die Antiken Gemmen,” Berlin, 1900; vol. i, Plate LXVII, Nos. 5, 2; described in vol. ii, p. 309.
Footnote 522:
Ibid., vol. i, Plate LXVIII, fig. 8; described in vol. ii, p. 307.
Footnote 523:
Op. cit., vol. i, Plate LXVII, in No. 7; described in vol. ii, p. 307.
Footnote 524:
Op. cit., vol. I, Plate LXVII, No. 3; described in vol. ii, p. 307.
Footnote 525:
Op. cit., vol. i, Plate LXVII, No. 1; described in vol. ii, p. 307.
Footnote 526:
Handbuch der Königlichen Museum zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbe Museum, by Julius Lessing, Berlin, 1892, p. 14.
Footnote 527:
The Jewellers’ Circular, Wednesday, December 16, 1914, vol. lxix, No. 20, p. 43.
Footnote 528:
F. de Mély, “Le Trésor de Chartres 1314–1793,” Paris, 1886, pp. 16–21, 30.
Footnote 529:
See C. W. King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, pp. 95–112; “The Emerald Vernicle of the Vatican.”
Footnote 530:
Thurston, “History of the Rosary in all Countries,” Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. 1, p. 271; London, 1902.
Footnote 531:
Leumann, “Rosaries Mentioned in Indian Literature;” in Trans. of the Ninth Cong. of Orient; (1892), London, 1893, pp. 883–889.
Footnote 532:
Inventory of royal treasures in the Château de Fontainebleau, Bibl. Nat. MS. franc. 4732; fol. 3 of transcript in author’s library from the collection of M. E. Molinier.
Footnote 533:
Carlos Justi, “Los Arfe”; in España Moderna, vol. 299, November, 1913, pp. 83, 87.
Footnote 534:
Mémoires de Madame la Duchesse d’Abrantès, Paris, n. d., vol. 7, p. 447.
Footnote 535:
Robert de Berquen, “Les Merveilles des Indes,” Paris, 1661, pp. 87, 32.
Footnote 536:
Dr. B. Ježek, “Aus dem Reiche der Edelsteinen,” Prag, 1913, pp. 128–131.
Footnote 537:
See G. F. Kunz, “Five Brazilian Diamonds,” Science, vol. iii, p. 649, No. 69, May 30, 1884.
Footnote 538:
Heuen Tsang, “Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales,” French trans. by Stanislas Julien, Paris, 1857, vol. i, p. 482.
Footnote 539:
“The Saddharma-Pundarîka, or the Lotus of the True Law,” trans. by H. Kern, Oxford, 1884, p. 228.
Footnote 540:
See J. Ribeyro, “Histoire de l’Isle de Ceylon,” French trans. of Abbé le Grand, Amsterdam, 1701, pp. 184, 185.
Footnote 541:
An account of King Kirti Sri’s embassy to Siam in 1672, Saka (1750 A.D.), trans. from Sinhalese by P. E. Pieris. Extract from Jour. Roy. As. Soc., vol. xviii, No. 54 (1903).
Footnote 542:
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, vol. xvii, p. 168, illustration.
Footnote 543:
Surindro Mohun Tagore, “Mani Mala,” Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881, pp. 573, 601, 703.
Footnote 544:
Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 106; see Major H. H. Cole, “Preservation of the Natural Monuments of India,” Pl. 52.
Footnote 545:
“Journal of Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador of James I to Shah Jehangir, Mogul Emperor of Hindoostan”; in Kerr’s Collection of Voyages and Travels, Edinburgh, 1824, vol. ix, p. 288.
Footnote 546:
Von Hammer, “Auszüge aus dem persischen Werke, Buch der Edelsteine, von Mohammed Ben Manssur”; in Fundgruben des Orients, vol. vi, p. 138; Wien, 1818.
Footnote 547:
Berthold Laufer, “Jade, a Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion,” Chicago, 1912, p. 157.
Footnote 548:
J. Deniker, “The Dalai Lama’s new Tse-boum from Paris,” Century Magazine, vol. lxvii, No. 4, Feb., 1904, pp. 582–583, with illustration.
Footnote 549:
Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1, Chicago, July, 1913, p. 11.
Footnote 550:
“Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva España,” Bib. de Aut. Esp., vol. xxvi, Madrid, 1866, p. 35.
Footnote 551:
Dr. Eduard Seler, “Similarity of Design of Some Teotihuacan Frescoes and Certain Mexican Pottery Objects,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, XVIII Session, London, 1912; Pt. II, London, 1913, p. 200.
Footnote 552:
“Among them that are born of woman there hath not arisen a greater.” Matt. xi, 11.
Footnote 553:
“Œuvres du Seigneur de Brantôme,” Londres, 1779, vol. v, pp. 35, 36.
Footnote 554:
W. H. Holmes, “Masterpieces of Aboriginal American Art,” II, Mosaic Work; reprint from Art and Archæology, vol. I, no. 3, Nov., 1914; see pp. 96, 97, and Figs. 2 and 3, pp. 92, 93.
Footnote 555:
Edward H. Thompson, “The Home of a Forgotten Race”; in The National Geographic Magazine, vol. xxv, No. 6, pp. 585–608; June, 1914.
Footnote 556:
Fewkes, “Archæological Investigations on the Island of La Plata, Ecuador,” Field Columbian Museum Pub. No. 56; Anthrop. Ser., vol. ii, No. 5, Chicago, 1901, pp. 266 sqq.
Footnote 557:
George F. Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” New York, 1890, pp. 61, 62.
Footnote 558:
Karutz, “Der Emanismus,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 45th Jahrgang, 1913, Heft III, Berlin, 1913, pp. 559, 560.
Footnote 559:
Browne, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” London, 1650, Bk. II, chap. 5, p. 65.
Footnote 560:
Scientific American, June 28, 1913, p. 575.
Footnote 561:
Morris Jastrow, Jr., “Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens,” vol. I, Giessen, 1905, pp. 335–339.
Footnote 562:
Pogue, “The Turquois,” Washington, 1915, citing an article by Sikes, In “Folk-lore,” vol. xii, p. 268, London, 1901.
Footnote 563:
Cited by Joseph E. Pogue, in “The Turquois”; Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. xii, pt. ii, Third Memoir, Washington, 1915, p. 13. From Ouseley, “Travels in Various Countries of the East, more
## Particularly Persia,” London, 1819, vol. i, pp. 210–212.
Footnote 564:
Pogue, “The Turquois,” Washington, 1915, citing Petrie “Egyptian Tales, First Series, Fourth to Twelfth Dynasty,” London, 1895, pp. 16–22.
Footnote 565:
Budge, “The Mummy,” Cambridge, 1894, pp. 330–331.
Footnote 566:
Communicated by Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Footnote 567:
“Life Work of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf,” vol. vi, Paris, 1907.
Footnote 568:
“The Life Work of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf,” vol. iv, Paris, 1907, p. 71.
Footnote 569:
Flinders Petrie, “The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt,” Edinburgh and London, 1909, p. 79.
Footnote 570:
Carlo Landberg, “Proverbes et dictons de la province de Syrie, Section de Sayda,” Leyden, 1883, pp. 313, 314.
Footnote 571:
Oskar Schneider, “Ueber Anschwemmung von antiken Arbeitsmaterial an der Alexandriner Küste,” in “Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Geographie und Kulturgeschichte,” Dresden, 1883, pp. 4, 5, 6.
Footnote 572:
Maçoudi, “Les Prairies d’Or,” text and French trans. by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille, vol. ii, Paris, 1863, pp. 436, 437, chap, xxxii.
Footnote 573:
Gesenius in his Hebrew Dictionary even conjectures that the lehâshîm may have been shells, which when held to the ear gave forth sounds believed to have an ominous significance.
Footnote 574:
Delegation en Perse, vol. viii, Recherches Archéoligiques 3 ème Série, Paris, 1905, pp. 36–58.
Footnote 575:
“Curieuse Kunst und Werck-Schul,” Nürnberg, 1705, p. 994.
Footnote 576:
Préceptes Médicaux de Serenus Sammonicus, text and trans. by L. Baudet, Paris, 1845, pp. 74–77.
Footnote 577:
De Foe, “A Journal of the Plague Year,” London, 1895, p. 38 (vol. ix of Works ed. by Aitken).
Footnote 578:
Ms. Gr. No. 2411, fol. 60. See C. Werscher, Bull. de la Soc. Nat. des antiq. de la France, 1874, vol. xxxv, pp. 153 sqq.
Footnote 579:
King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, p. 187.
Footnote 580:
In the author’s library.
Footnote 581:
King, “Early Christian Numismatics,” London, 1873, pp. 229, 230.
Footnote 582:
Gregorii Episcopi Turonensis, “Historia Francorum,” ed. Arndt, and Krusch, Para I, Hannoveræ, 1884, p. 349, lib. viii, cap. 33.
Footnote 583:
Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne, ed. by Dom Fernand Cabrol and Dom H. Leclercq, Fasc. xxv, Paris, 1911, cols. 696–698, with cuts of the talisman taken from those given by E. Aus’m Weertht to illustrate a paper in the Jahrb. des Vereins der Alterthumsfreunde im Rheinlande, vols. xxxix-xl, p. 265–272, Plates IV, V, VI, Bonn, 1866. The original photographs were taken by express permission of Napoleon III.
Footnote 584:
Emile Ollivier, “L’Empire Libérale,” Paris, 1897, vol. ii, p. 55.
Footnote 585:
Rev. Oswald Cockayne, “Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England,” London, 1865, vol. ii, p. 299 (Bk. II, cap. 66 of the “Laece Boc”).
Footnote 586:
Renel, “Les religions de la Gaule avant le Christianisme,” Paris, 1906, p. 97.
Footnote 587:
See Paul Broca, “Sur la trépanation du crâne et les amulettes crâniennes de l’époque néolitique,” Revue d’Anthropologie, vol. vi, 1877, pp. 1–42, 193–225; and also his “Amulettes crâniennes et trépanation préhistorique” in the same Revue, vol. v, 1876, pp. 106, 107.
Footnote 588:
Kumagusu Minakata, “Trepanning among Ancient Peoples,” Nature, Jan. 15, 1914, pp. 555, 556; citing Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910, vol. xiii, p. 518, and E. A. Schiefner, “Tibetan Tales,” trans. Ralston, 1906, p. 98.
Footnote 589:
Pierre Lacroix, “Sciences et Lettres au Moyen Age,” Paris, 1877, p. 250.
Footnote 590:
Martin, “Histoire de France,” vol. x, Paris, 1844, p. 451, note. From a communication of Pierre Lacroix, citing as authority: “Catalogue des tableaux, antiquités, pierres gravées, etc., etc., du cabinet de feu M. d’Ennery, écuyer,” by Remi and Miliotti, Paris, 1786.
Footnote 591:
Birlinger, “Kleinere deutsche Sprachdenkmäler”; in Germania, vol. iii (1863), p. 303.
Footnote 592:
Cardani, “De subtilitate,” lib. vii, Basileæ, 1560, p. 473.
Footnote 593:
Inventaire des biens de Marguerite de Flandres Duchesse de Bourgogne, Bibl. Nat., coll. Moreau, 1727; on fol. 96 of transcription in author’s library, from the collection of M. E. Molinier.
Footnote 594:
Konrad von Megenberg’s old German version “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 449.
Footnote 595:
Cardani, “De rerum varietate,” lib. v, Basileæ, 1557, p. 100.
Footnote 596:
Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 330.
Footnote 597:
“Anatomy of Melancholy,” Bk. II, § 4, i, 4.
Footnote 598:
Agnes Strickland, “Lives of the Queens of England,” vol. vii, pp. 770, 778.
Footnote 599:
Alex. Nicholes, “A Discourse of Marriage and Wiveing,” 1615, Hasl. Misc. II, 180; cited in Lean’s Collectanea, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 641.
Footnote 600:
F. Lalut, “L’amulet de Pascal,” in Annales méd. psych., I ser., vol. v, pp. 157–180; and P. E. Littré, “Médecine et médecins,” Paris, 1872, pp. 95–97.
Footnote 601:
“Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart,” ed. by Friedrich Michael Schiele, vol. i, Tübingen, 1909, col. 455.
Footnote 602:
Enrico H. Giglioli, “Di alcuni ex-voto amuleti, ed altri oggetti litici adoperati nel culto di Krishna, sotto la forma di Jagan-natha a Puri in Orissa,” Archivio per l’Antropologia, vol. xxiii, pp. 87–89; Firanzi, 1893.
Footnote 603:
Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Field Museum of Natural History, Publication 169; Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1. Chicago, July, 1913; see text opposite frontispiece plate.
Footnote 604:
Berthold Laufer, “Jade, a Study in Chinese Archæology and Religion,” Chicago, 1912, pp. 194 sqq.
Footnote 605:
Communicated by Dr. Charles S. Braddock, formerly physician to the court of Siam, under date of February 13, 1903.
Footnote 606:
Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 27; Plate XV, Figs. 112, 113.
Footnote 607:
L. Austine Waddell, “Lhasa and its Mysteries, with a Record of the Expedition of 1903–1904,” London, 1905, pp. 347, 348.
Footnote 608:
Ibid., pp. 348, 349.
Footnote 609:
Fortunio Liceti, De annulis, cap. 19.
Footnote 610:
Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 59.
Footnote 611:
H. Shway Yoe, “The Burman: His Life and Nations,” in “Indian Jewellery,” by T. H. Hendley. The Journal of Indian Art and Industry, Jan., 1909, vol. xii, No. 105, p. 143.
Footnote 612:
Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, pp. 320 sqq.
Footnote 613:
Alois Musil, “Arabia Petræa,” Wien, 1908, vol. iii, pp. 314, 315.
Footnote 614:
Lean’s Collectanea (by Vincent Stuckey Lean), vol. ii, Pt. I, Bristol, 1903, p. 468.
Footnote 615:
Professora Isabel Ramirez Castañeda, “El Folk-Lore de Milpa Alta, D. F., Mexico,” in Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, XVIII Session, London, 1912, Pt. II, London, 1913, pp. 352–354.
Footnote 616:
Ibid., pp. 356, 357.
Footnote 617:
George Grant McCurdy, Ph.D., “A Study of Chiriquian Antiquities,” New Haven, Conn., 1911, p. 42, figs. 45 and 49; Mem. of the Conn. Acad, of Arts and Sciences, vol. iii, March, 1911.
Footnote 618:
R. Verneau and P. Rivet, “Ethnologie ancienne de l’Equateur,” Paris, 1912, vol. vi of Mission du service Géologique de l’armée pour la mesure d’un arc de méridien equatorial en Amérique du Sud, 1899–1900, pp. 222, 223, Plate XIII, fig. 4.
Footnote 619:
George Frederick Kunz, “Folk-lore of Precious Stones,” Chicago, 1894; reprint from Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology; see p. 269.
Footnote 620:
George H. Pepper, “The Exploration of a Burial-room in Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico,” Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909, pp. 229, 230, 236, 237.
Footnote 621:
George H. Pepper. The plate is from the “American Anthropologist,” New Series, vol. vii, pl. xvii.
Footnote 622:
“The Turquois. A Study of its History, Mineralogy, Geology, Ethnology, Archæology, Mythology, Folklore and Technology.” By Joseph E. Pogue. Third Memoir, vol. xii, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., 1915, 162 p., plates 22, 4to.
Footnote 623:
Pogue, “The Turquois,” citing Russell, “The Pima Indians,” in 26th Annual Report of the Bureau of Amer. Ethnology, 1904–1905, p. 112.
Footnote 624:
“Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico,” ed. by Frederick Webb Hodge; Smithsonian Inst., Bur. of Am. Ethn., Bull. 30, Pt. II, p. 178; Washington, 1910.
Footnote 625:
W. J. Hoffman, “The Midêwiwin, or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibway”; 7th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–86, Washington, 1891, pp. 149–300, with many illustrations.
Footnote 626:
Loc. cit., Pl. XI, fig. 7, opp. 220.
Footnote 627:
W. J. Hoffman, “The Midêwiwin, or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibway”; 7th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–86, Washington, 1891, p. 277.
Footnote 628:
L’Abbé Banier and l’Abbé Mascrier, “Histoire générale des cérémonies, mœurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde,” Paris, 1741, p. 101.
Footnote 629:
Free Museum of Science and Art, Bulletin No. 4, Jan., 1898, p. 183 (with figures).
Footnote 630:
John Murdoch, “The Point Barrow Eskimo,” 9th Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1887–88, Washington, 1892, p. 435.
Footnote 631:
Ibid., p. 439, fig. 426.
Footnote 632:
Ibid., p. 438; see fig. 425.
Footnote 633:
Ibid., p. 439.
Footnote 634:
Hans Egede, “A Description of Greenland,” London, 1745, p. 194 (Eng. trans.).
Footnote 635:
David Crantz, “The History of Greenland”: London, 1767, vol. i, p. 216 (Eng. trans.).
Footnote 636:
Rasmussen, “The People of the Polar North,” Philadelphia, 1908, p. 139.
Footnote 637:
Ibid., p. 139.
Footnote 638:
J. G. Frazer, “Balder the Beautiful,” London, 1913, vol. ii, p. 155. See also by the same writer, “Folk-lore in the Old-Testament,” in Anthropological Essays, presented to E. B. Tyler, Oxford, 1907, pp. 148 sqq.
Footnote 639:
Sir George Grey, “Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery,” London, 1841, vol. ii, pp. 340, 341.
Footnote 640:
Bonney, Journ. of the Anthrop, Inst., vol. xiii, p. 130.
Footnote 641:
For further details concerning these strange ornaments, see the writer’s “Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913, pp. 87–90.
Footnote 642:
Fernie, “Precious Stones for Curative Wear,” Bristol, 1907, p. 39.
Footnote 643:
A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, 1908, p. 293.
Footnote 644:
Grey, “Polynesian Mythology,” London, 1855, p. 132.
Footnote 645:
Elsdon Best, “The Stone Implements of the Maori,” Dominion Museum Bulletin, No. 4, Wellington, New Zealand, 1912.
Footnote 646:
Giglioli, “Materiali per lo studio della Età della Pietra,” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, pp. 79, 80; Firenze, 1901.
Footnote 647:
Ibid., pp. 82, 83.
Footnote 648:
“Folk Lore,” vol. xxiv, No. 2, July, 1913, Story sent to R. R. Marett by Mr. D. Jenness of Baliol College, Oxford.
Footnote 649:
Fraser, “The Golden Bough,” Pt. I, “The Magic Art,” London, 1911, vol. i, p. 164.
Footnote 650:
J. G. Frazer, “Balder the Beautiful,” London, 1913, vol. ii, p. 142; citing B. Julg, “Kalmückische Märchen,” Leipzig, 1866, No. 12, pp. 58 sqq.
Footnote 651:
W. L. Hildburgh, “Further Notes in Spanish Amulets,” in Folk Lore, vol. xxiv. No. 1, March 31, 1913, pp. 63–74; 2 plates.
Footnote 652:
W. L. Hildburgh, “Notes on Spanish Amulets,” Folk Lore, vol. xvii, 1906, pp. 454–472. See Plate VIII, fig. 29, opp. p. 462.
Footnote 653:
W. L. Hildburgh, “Further Notes on Spanish Amulets,” in Folk Lore, vol. xxiv, No. 1, p. 66, March 31, 1913; one of those amulets is shown in Plate I, fig. 4, p. 64.
Footnote 654:
S. Weissenberg, “Südrussische Amulette,” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1897, pp. 367–369.
Footnote 655:
From Jewellers’ Circular Weekly, Feb. 5, 1913, p. 153.
Footnote 656:
A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, p. 295, Plate V, fig. 1.
Footnote 657:
See A. E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, 1904, pp. 288–303; citing Bratly, “The Power of Gems and Charms,” London, 1907.
Footnote 658:
A, E. Wright and E. Lovett, “Specimens of Modern Mascots and Ancient Amulets of the British Isles,” Folk Lore, vol. xix, p. 303.
Footnote 659:
St. Louis Democrat, 1905.
Footnote 660:
See the writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1913, p. 125; also pp. 68, 96.
Footnote 661:
Wilhelmus Parisiensis, quoted in Pancirollus, “History of Many Memorable Things,” London, 1715, vol. i, p. 42.
Footnote 662:
Benvenuto Cellini, “Due trattati, uno intorno alle otto principali arti dell’ oreficeria,” etc., Fiorenzi, Valenti Panizzi & Marco Peri, 1568, fol. 10.
Footnote 663:
Edmond Doutté, “Magie et Religion,” Alger, 1909, pp. 83, 84.
Footnote 664:
Berthelot, “Collection des anciens alchemistes grecs,” Paris, 1888, 1889, vol. i, p. 9 of text.
Footnote 665:
Roth, “Great Benin, Its Customs, Art and Horrors,” Halifax, England, 1903, p. 95.
Footnote 666:
See Wilt’s “History of India,” vol. ii, p. 197. Cited in Lean’s Collectanea, vol. ii, Pt. II, Bristol, 1903, p. 641.
Footnote 667:
C. G. Jentsch, “Dissertatio physico-historica de gemmis,” Lipaiæ, 1706, p. 19. See also the present writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913, p. 41.
Footnote 668:
Ulloa’s Voyage to South America, trans. of John Adams, in Pinkerton’s Voyages and Travels, vol. xiv, London, 1813, p. 546.
Footnote 669:
Pocock’s “Travels in Egypt,” Pinkerton’s “Voyages and Travels,” vol. xv, London, 1814, p. 238.
Footnote 670:
See Warren K. Moorehead, “Hematite Implements of the United States,” Bulletin VI of the Department of Archæology, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Andover, 1912.
Footnote 671:
Ibid., p. 81, Fig. 41.
Footnote 672:
Ibid., p. 91, Fig. 47.
Footnote 673:
Note on jade copied from the Tûzuk-i-Jâhangiri, or memoirs of Jahangir, trans. by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 146; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.
Footnote 674:
See The Morgan-Whitney Collection of Chinese Jades and other Hard Stones, donated to the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, City Park, New Orleans, 1914, p. 32; plate opp. p. 33.
Footnote 675:
Communicated by Dr. O. C. Farrington.
Footnote 676:
See in praise of the moonstone the poem autographed for this work by the poet, Edward Forrester Sutton.
Footnote 677:
Petri Servii, “Dissertatio de unguento armario,” Romæ, 1643, p. 43.
Footnote 678:
Johann August Donndorf, “Natur und Kunst,” Leipzig, 1790, vol. ii, p. 497.
Footnote 679:
Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East,” Chicago, 1913, p. 50, vol. xiii, No. 1, of Anthropological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; citing a translation by MM. Chavannes and Pelliot entitled: “Un traité manichéen retrouvé en Chine,” pub. in Journal Asiatique, 1912.
Footnote 680:
“Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,” trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, p. 96.
Footnote 681:
“Ancient Accounts of India and China by Two Mohammedan Travellers,” trans. by Abbé Renaudot, London, 1733, pp. 97, 98.
Footnote 682:
See Hakluyt, “The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation,” London, 1589.
Footnote 683:
H. Lyster Jameson, in “Nature,” Oct. 7, 1912.
Footnote 684:
See “Nature,” Oct. 24, 1912, p. 220.
Footnote 685:
Rumphius, “D’Amboinische Rariteitskamer,” Amsterdam, 1741, p. 62.
Footnote 686:
Schiller’s “Werke,” ed. by R. Boxberger, vol. iv, Berlin and Stuttgart, n. d., pp. 179, 180, note; from a communication to the editor by Dr. R. Köhler of Weimar, in illustration of the following lines of Schiller’s “Don Karlos,” Act II, Sc. 8:
Dem grossen Kaufmann gleich Der, ungerührt von des Rialto’s Gold, Und Königen zum Schimpfe, seine Perle Dem reichen Meere wiedergab, zu stoltz Sie unter ihrem Werte loszuschlagen.
Footnote 687:
G. W. Freytag, “Arabum proverbia,” Bonnæ ad Rhenam, 1843, vol. iii, Pt. 1, p. 495.
Footnote 688:
Helvetius, “De l’esprit,” vol. ii, p. 17.
Footnote 689:
Johannis Braunii, “De Vestitu Sacerdotum Hebræorum,” Amatelodami, 1680, p. 683.
Footnote 690:
From a XIII century MS. of his work, “De Proprietatibus Rerum,” fol. clxi, recto and verso. This vellum MS. was originally in the possession of the Carthusian Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Dijon. Now the property of I. Martini of New York.
Footnote 691:
Leopold Claremont, “Singhalese Gems,” in The Jeweler and Metalworker, pp. 1936a–1936g, December 15, 1913.
Footnote 692:
Abridgment by Von Hammer in the “Fundgruben des Orients,” Wien, 1818, vol. vi.
Footnote 693:
Ibid., p. 129.
Footnote 694:
Rose, “Aristoteles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitschr. für Deutsches Altertum, New Series, vol. vi, p. 386.
Footnote 695:
Aristophanes, “Clouds,” lines 768 sqq.
Footnote 696:
A. R. Tutton, in Society of Arts, London.
Footnote 697:
Chalfant, “Early Chinese Writing,” Mem. of Carnegie Museum, vol. iv, No. 1, Pittsburgh, 1906, Pl. VI, No. 75.
Footnote 698:
De Mély, “Les lapidaires chinois,” Paris, 1896, p. lxiv.
Footnote 699:
Lacroix, “Sur le travail de la pierre polie dans le Haut-Oubangi”; La Géographie, bulletin of the Société de Géographie, Paris, Oct. 15, 1909, pp. 201–206; figures.
Footnote 700:
“Sur le travail de la pierre polie dans le Haut-Oubanghi,” Comptes Rendus de l’Acad. d. Sc., vol. cxlviii, 1909, p. 1725.
Footnote 701:
Giglioli, “Materiale per lo studio della Età della Pietra,” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, p. 85, Firenze, 1901.
Footnote 702:
Communication from Taw Sein Ko.
Footnote 703:
Archæologia, vol. xxvii, pp. 175, 207. London, 1838.
Footnote 704:
“A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese,” trans. by Henry E. Staney, London, 1866, p. 208; Hakluyt Soc. Pub., vol. xxxv.
Footnote 705:
Theophrasti, “De lapidibus (Peri lithôn),” ed. by John Hill, London, 1746; cap. 31.
Footnote 706:
Garcias ab Orta, “Aromatum historia” (Lat. version by Clusius), Antverpiæ, 1579, lib. i, p. 175.
Footnote 707:
Finot, “Les lapidaires indiens,” Paris, 1896, p. 39, from the “Ratnaparikha” of Buddhabhatta.
Footnote 708:
Ribeiro’s “History of Ceylon,” tr. by P. E. Pieris, Galle, n. d., Pt. II, p. 317.
Footnote 709:
Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam lectu digna,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 329.
Footnote 710:
Eilhard Wiedmann, “Ueber den Wert von Edelsteinen bei den Muslimen,” in “Der Islam,” vol. ii, 1911, pp. 347 sqq.
Footnote 711:
Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien; Naharari’s Rajanighantu, Varga XIII,” Leipzig, 1882, p. 79.
Footnote 712:
J. H. Collins, “The History of a Remarkable Gem. The Maxwell-Stuart Topaz.” Mineralogical Magazine No. 13, 1879.
Footnote 713:
Berthold Laufer, “Notes on Turquois in the East.” Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, vol. xiii, No. 1, Chicago, July, 1913, pp. 5, 8.
Footnote 714:
The Tûzuk-i-Jâhangîrî, or memoirs of Jahangir, trans. by Alexander Rogers, London, 1909, p. 238; Orient. Trans. Fund, N. S., vol. xix.
Footnote 715:
M. Tullii Ciceronis, “In Verrem,” lib. iv, Oratio nona, cap. 27.
Footnote 716:
Marshall H. Saville in the American Anthropologist, vol. xv, No. 3, July-September, 1913.
Footnote 717:
R. Campbell, “The London Tradesman,” London, 1747, p. 143.
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