Fox, John, Jr.’s “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” 37 Foy, Sainte, statuette of, 261, 262 Francis I of Austria, 89 Franklin, Benjamin, on tourmaline, 57 Frederick III of Denmark, 126 French Academy of Sciences, 54 G Gabelchover, Wolfgang, 153, 158 Gabriel, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 250 334 Galactite, 3, 4 Galba, Emperor, 83 Galen, 136, 137, 146, 188, 232 Garcias ab Orta, 68, 204 Garcilasso de la Vega, 214 Garnet, 123, 291, 296, 309, 317, 330 “Gascoigne’s powder,” 127, 128 Gaster, 371 “Gem of Sovranty” or “Gem of the King of Kings,” 11 Gem-cutters, American Indian, 381 George V, King, 362 George, St., 261, 274 legend of, 260 thalers, 260 Gesner, Conrad, 4, 54, 73, 144 Gesta Romanorum, snake story from, 238 Giglioli, Enrico H., 364 Girasol, 291 _Glæsum_ (amber), 60 _Glossopetræ_, 161, 180, 188–190 Gnostics, magic jewels of, 328 “Godstones” buried with the dead, 23 “Golden Cacique” (El Dorado) at Lake Guatavita, 311 Gordian the Younger, Emperor, 326 Gorgonus, St., 252 _Grammatias_, variety of jasper, 284 Green, Miss Bella Da Costa, vii Gregory X, Pope, 119 Gregory XIII, Pope, 212 Gregory of Tours, his account of Paris talismans, 329 Guatavita, Lake of, treasures thrown in, 310–312 _Guligas_ (bezoars) artificially induced by Dayaks of Borneo, 217 H Haberden, William, his researches on tourmaline, 56, 57 Hadrian, Emperor, 1 Hahedan, angel of October, 248 Hair-balls, 220, 221 _Hajar al-hattaf_, or “hen-stone,” 181 Hajar al-hayyat (“madstone”), 225 _Hajer al-Kelb_, “dog-stone,” 11, 12 _Hajer al-mathar_, Arabic rain-stone, 5 Hammer-Purgstall, 89 Harington, Sir James, 120 Haupt, Paul, 277 Haüy, Abbé, 56 Haye, Olivier de la, his poem on “Black Death,” 120 Hei-tikis, carved jades of New Zealand, 361 Helena, Queen, 380 Helena, St., 329 Heliotrope, 291 Hematite, 124, 125, 320 American Indian artefacts of, 382, 383 black, Abraxas gem of, 287 curative use of, 136–138 He-no, Iroquois god of thunder, 107 Henri II, of France, 334 Herculanus, St., 252 Hermetes, St., 252 Herodian, 74 Hertz, B., 48 Hildburgh, W. L., 367 Hildegard, St., her theory of curative stones, 13 Hill, Sir John, 118 Hippocrates of Cos, 333 Hofmann, Johann Peter, alchemist, 15, 16 Hoffman’s “Fräulein von Scudéry,” 371 Holme, Saxe (pseudonym), 51 Holmes, W. H., vii Hope, Henry Philip, collection of, 48 Hortense, Queen, 330 Hugo, Victor, 153 Huntington, O. W., 101 Huth, Ernst, 235 Huxley, Thomas, 105 Hyacinth (sapphire?), 282 _Hyænia_, 169 Hydaspes River, stone of, 2 Hyde, Major, 309 Hydrophane, or “magic stone,” 240 _Hysterolithus_, 75, 195, 196 I Ibn Al-Beithar, 11, 148, 167 Ibn Batoutah, 84 Ibn Kadho Shobah, 4 Ichthys, angel, 246 Iliad, 138 Inclusions in crystals, 31, 34 India, Francesco, 121, 124
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