Barnabas, St., 268, 273 Baroda, Gaikwar of, 380 Bartholomæus Anglicus, 147, 394, 395 Bartholomew, St., 271 Basillæ, St., 252 _Battê ha-nephesh_ of Hebrews, 360 Bauhin, Caspar, 202 Bausch, 175, 176 Belaleazar, Sebastian de, 311 Belemnites, 112, 161, 191 Bellermann, Johann Joachim, 278 Belucci, Prof. Giuseppe, 107, 145, 200 Benzinger, 78 Berghem, Lodowyk van, 295 Berlin Academy of Sciences, 54 Bertholin, Caspar, 139 Beryl, 287, 317 curative use of, 130 stone of Gad, symbolical meaning of, 283 Bezoar, 13, 17, 123, 126, 160, 170, 201–220 American, 218, 219 etymology of name, 203 from monkeys, 203 from skull of rhinoceros, 211 genesis of, according to Peruvians, 210 mineral, 211 Occidental, 212–215 prices of, 204, 208, 214, 216, 218 Queen Elizabeth’s, 215 Rudolph II’s, 215, 216 test of, as poison antidote, by Ambroise Paré, 205–207 by Emperor Rudolph II, 208, 209 “Black magic,” 29 “Black stone” of Kaabah at Mecca, 73, 84–88 Blaise, St., 256, 257, 267, 273 Blake, W. W., vii Bloodstone, 121, 286 Bomare, Valmont de, 155, 217 “Book of the Dead,” extracts from, 318–320 Boot, Anselmus de, 65, 144, 145, 151, 162, 165, 192, 199, 204, 223, 226 Borodino, battle of, 96 Borrichius, Plaus, 154 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 317 Boulder’s, legends of, 38 _sqq._, 263 Boyle, Robert, 105, 125 Braddock, Charles, vii Brantôme, Seigneur de, 305, 306 Brereton, Sir William, 111 Brezina, Aristides, 90 British Museum, 32, 307 Broca, Paul, 332 Broichan the Druid and St. Columba, 24, 156 _Brontia_, 162, 197, 198 Browne, Sir Thomas, on amulets, 314 Bruce, Robert, 25 Brückmann, U. F. B., 127 _Bucardites_, 196 Buddha, gem on images of, 297 jewelled pagoda over sacred footprint of, 299 solid gold image of, 303, 304 vases offered to, 297 _Bufonitis_, or “toad-stone,” 163 Burckhardt, 85 Burgarde, St., 267 Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” on stone charms, 336 C Caftanzoglu, 373 _Callimus_, inclusion in _ætites_, 174, 175 Callistratus, 62 Callistus, St., 252 Caloceri, St., 251 Candlemas Day, 269, 272 Cañon Diablo meteorite, 99–101 diamonds in, 100, 101 Canticles, 284, 322 Cantimpré, Thomas de, 12, 130, 164, 172, 180, 285, 336 Cape York meteorites, 96–98 chemical composition of, 98 Carbuncle, 279, 387 curative use of, 130 luminous, story of, told by Cellini, 378 Cardano, Girolamo, 144, 167, 336 Carew, Sir George, 214 Carnelian, 291, 297, 300, 317, 324, 361, 368, 378 rings, Mohammed’s good augury of, 379 stone of Reuben, symbolical meaning of, 281 used for amulets in ancient Egypt, 320 Carpoforus, St., 252 Carrington, Hereward, vii Catherine II, Empress, 387 Catherine, St., of Alexandria, 259, 295 Catlin, George, 35, 36 Catlinite, 35, 37 Cat’s-eye, 11, 29 Cecil, Henry, 235 Cecil, Sir Robert, 214 Cellini, Benvenuto, 20, 378