An old account of the London trades and guilds, in writing of the jewellers’ art, makes the following statement regarding the qualifications of a jeweller, as appropriate to our own times as to any other.[717] He ought to be an elegant Designer, and have a quick Invention for new Patterns, not only to range the stones in such manner as to give Lustre to one another, but to create Trade; for a new Fashion takes as much with the Ladies in Jewels as in anything else; he that can furnish them oftenest with the newest Whim has the best Chance for their Custom. Index A Aazem, great name of God, on rain-stone,5 Abarchiel, angel of March, 248 Abbott, Charles E., vii Abdos, St., 252 Abenzoar, 136 Abracadabra charm, 326, 327 Abraham, 86 Abrantès, Duchesse d’, 295 Acontus, St., 252 Acosta, José de, 210 Acrostics in jewels, 375 Actinolite, 29 Acts of the Apostles in burning of Ephesian magic books, 325 Adair, 107 _Adlerstein_, 193 Ægospotami, meteor of, 79, 80 Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodor, 54 _Ætites_, 20, 124, 173–178 names of, in various languages, 175 Ætius, 174 Agapitus, St., 252 Agate, 30, 31, 291, 317, 324 amulets of, in Spain, 368 as Anglo-Saxon talisman, 331 banded, stone of Benjamin, symbolical meaning of, 283 curative use of, 129 dog’s head amulet of, from Mexico, 351 “eye-,” 315 idol of red, in Kaabah, 84 pebbles of, with natural markings, 377 “rainbow agate,” 377, 378 Agatha, St., 257, 272 Agincourt, battle of, 259 “Ahnighito,” great Cape York meteorite, 97 Alban, St., stone in Abbey of, 151–153 Al-Beruni’s statement of prices of precious stones in eleventh century, 403 Alcathous, 2 Alchemist’s gold, 14, 16 medallion transmuted into, 15 medal made from, 15, 16 Alchemy, 14–16 _Alectorius_, 20, 119, 160, 179, 180, 181 Alexander the Great, 299, 322, 324, 378 wonderful stones found by, 70 Alexandra, Queen, talisman of, 362 Allen, Edward Heron, 116 Amazon stones, 143, 148, 304, 320 symbol of Suffrage Party, 374 Amber, 60–64, 297, 343, 345, 358 account of, by Tacitus, 60 beads, 61–63 bulls of Romans, 60 crucifix of yellow, 295 curative power of, 62 electrical property of, 63 hair, 61 necklace of, as aid to longevity, 63 oil of, 64 Ambergris, 185, 186 Ambrose, St., 243, 272 American Folk Lore Society’s exhibit in Chicago, 190, 191, 352 American Museum of Natural History, 32, 34, 96, 99 Amethyst, 58, 123, 296, 330, 335 engraved, in Egyptian amulets, 280 necklace of, ancient Egyptian, 317 stone of Dan, symbolical meaning of, 283 Amitabha, emanation of Adi-Buddha, coral statuette of, in Royal Chapel at Lhasa, Tibet, 303