The figure of a ram or of a bearded man, on a sapphire, has the power to cure and preserve from many infirmities as well as to free from poison and from all demons. This is a royal image; it confers dignities and honors and exalts the wearer. A frog, engraved on a beryl, will have the power to reconcile enemies and produce friendship where there was discord. A camel’s head or two goats among myrtles, if on an onyx, has the power to convoke, assemble, and constrain demons; if any one wears it, he will see terrible visions in sleep. A vulture, if on a chrysolite, has the power to constrain demons and the winds. It controls demons and prevents them from coming together in the place where the gem may be; it also guards against their importunities. The demons obey the wearer. A bat, represented on a heliotrope or bloodstone, gives the wearer power over demons and helps incantations. A griffin, imaged on a crystal, produces abundance of milk. A man richly dressed and with a beautiful object in his hand, engraved on a carnelian, checks the flow of blood and confers honors. A lion or an archer, on a jasper, gives help against poison and cures from fever. A man in armor, with bow and arrow, on an iris stone, protects from evil both the wearer and the place where it may be. A man with a sword in his hand, on a carnelian, preserves the place where it may be from lightning and tempest, and guards the wearer from vices and enchantments. A bull engraved on a prase is said to give aid against evil spells and to procure the favor of magistrates. A hoopoo with a tarragon herb before it, represented on a beryl, confers the power to invoke water-spirits and to converse with them, as well as to call up the mighty dead and to obtain answers to questions addressed to them. A swallow, on a celonite, establishes and preserves peace and concord among men. A man with his right hand raised aloft, if engraved on a chalcedony, gives success in lawsuits, renders the wearer healthy, gives him safety in his travels and preserves him from all evil chances. The names of God, on a _ceraunia_ stone, have the power to preserve the place where the stone may be from tempests; they also give to the wearer victory over his enemies. A bear, if engraved on an amethyst, has the virtue of putting demons to flight and defends and preserves the wearer from drunkenness. A man in armor, graven on a magnet, or loadstone, has the power to aid in incantations and makes the wearer victorious in war.[191] An Italian manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century, gives the following talismanic gems: If thou findest a stone on which is graven or figured a man with a goat’s head, whoever wears this stone, with God’s help, will have great riches and the love of all men and animals.