Meteorites, 72–117 accidents caused by, 102–104 coins representing, 90, 91 collection of, in Vienna, 90 from Cape York, 96–98 from Kiowa Co., Kansas, 101, 102 from Willamette, Ore., 98, 99 of Ægospotami, 79, 80 of Bacubrit, Mexico, 103 of Book of Joshua, 79 of Cañon Diablo, 99–101 of Castrovilarii, Calabria, 93 of Diana Temple at Ephesus, 81 of Eisleben, 103 of Ensisheim, 73 of Knyahinya, Hungary, 102 of Lahore, India, 92 of Luce, Dept. Marne, France, 94 of Magdeburg, 91 of Mecca (Black Stone), 73, 84–88 of Paphos, 81 of Pergamos, brought to Rome, 74 of Radacofani, Italy, 91 of Zanzibar, 71 Pallas, or Krasnojarsk, 95 _pwdre ser_, or “star-rot” of Welsh, 104–106 Swords made of, 88–90, 92 “Verwünschte Burggraf” of Elbogen, 89, 90 Michael, archangel, 243, 245, 246, 250, 334 Midêwiwin, or Great Medicine Society of the Ojibways, 354, 355 magic stone of, 354 medicine-bag used by, 356 Milinda, King, 11 Milo of Croton, wore an _alectorius_, 179 _Milprey_, “thousand worms,” Cornish name of a snake-stone, 227 “Mineral stone,” for turning pebbles into precious stones, 16 Mohammed, 74, 84 Mohammed Ben Mansur, 396, 397 Mohammed Ghazni, Sultan, 90 Moissan, Henri, 100 Monardes, Nicolo, in jade, 139, 201, 203 Montezuma’s gifts to Cortés, 305, 307, 309 Months, angels of the, 247 Moonstone, remarkable, of Pope Leo X, 386 Moonstone Beach, Santa Catalina Island, pebbles from, 30 Moore, Thomas, 250 Morael, angel of September, 248 Morgan, Henry de, 323 Morgan, J. Pierpont, 185 “Mummy eyes,” Peruvian, 352 Museum of University of Pennsylvania, 358 N Napoleon I, 96, 295 Napoleon III, Emperor, 330 Nash, Thomas, 166 Nautilus pearls, 391 Nebuchadnezzar I, 78 Necklace of the Egyptian Princess Sat-Hathor-Ant, XII Dynasty, 317, 318 _Neshem_-stone, 320 New Caledonian stone amulets, 45 New Zealand jade, _punamu_ or “green-stone,” 361–363 Newton, Hubert A., 72, 73, 74 Nicholas I, Emperor, 285 Nicholas, St., 275 legend of, 258 Nicholas, St., of Bari, “manna” of, 266 Nicostratus, St., 252 Noah’s rain-stone, 4, 5 Nonnus, St., 252 Nordenskiold, Baron N. A. E., 97 Norman, Robert, poem on loadstone, 66 _Nung-gara_, or Australian medicine-men, 17 O _Oleum succini_, 64 _Ombria_, 162, 197, 198 Onyx, 277, 335, 369 curative use of, 151–153 stone of Zebulon, symbolical meaning of, 282 wonderful cup of, belonging to Duke of Brunswick, 387 Opal, 372, 374, 407 favored by Queen Victoria, 375 parure of, for Empress Augusta, 375 Orchamps, Baronesse d’, 371 Osman, Augustin, 374 _Ostrea Singapora_, 391 _Ostrites_, 224, 225 Otilia, St., 267 Overbury, Sir Thomas, 381 Ovid, 131 _Ovum anguinum_, 162, 197, 221–224, 226 _Oyaron_, Indian amulet-control, 354 P