Shakespeare, 162, 260, 337, 379, 391, 393 _Shamir_, mysterious Hebrew stone, 7–10 Arabic legend regarding, 9 in the Bible, 7, 8 in Rabbinical legend, 8 Sharks’ teeth, fossil, 190 Sh’efiel, angel of April, 247 _Shoham_-stone, 277 Siamese girl’s consecration, jewels worn at, 342 Signatures, doctrine of, 118 Silanus, St., 252 Simon and Jude, SS., 271 Skulls, disks from, as talismans, 331–334 in Buddhist legend, 332, 333 in neolithic times, 333 on bracelet of Catherine de’ Medici, 334 _Smaragdus_, 319, 320, 384 “Snake-stone,” 221–240 Snouck-Hurgronje, Dr. C., 87 Socrates, 397 Solomon, 9, 10 “Southern stone” in Kaabah at Mecca, 87 Spangenberg’s Saxon Chronicle, 103 “Spider-stone,” 183, 184 anecdote of, 183 Spinel, 296 Spitzer collection, 185 “St. Paul’s earth,” 189 Star-sapphire, as Christmas gem, 286 set in hilt of sword given King Constantine XII of Greece, 372, 373 Steatite, 300 _Steinzungen_, 189 Stone Age in China, 76–78 “Stone of the Banner,” 25 “Stones of the cobra,” 231, 232, 235–238 _Stûpra_, celestial, Hindu shrine, 298 Suckling, Sir John, 104 Suetonius, 83 Suffrage Party, amazon-stone as symbol of, 374 Sunstone, 387 Sutton, Edward Forrester, vii Swithin, St., 270, 276 Swords made of meteoric iron, 88–90, 92 Symbolic jewel composed of three keys, 375 Sympathetic magic, doctrine of, 366 T Ta’anbanu, angel of July, 247 Tabasheer, 149, 233, 235 Tacitus, 60, 81 Talismans, see amulets Tan Sien Ko, vii Tashnedernis, angel of February, 248 Tasmanian rain-makers, 34 Taurinus, St., 252 Tavernier, Jean Baptiste, 110, 185, 230, 231, 235 _Tecolithos_, 188 Teeth as amulets, 368 inlaid with precious stones, 406, 407 Tetragrammaton, 278 Thales, 63 Thebes, 1, 2 Theophrastus, 3, 53, 118, 173, 401 _Theriaca Andromachi_ or “Venice treacle,” 121 “Thesaurus Pauperum” of Pope John XXI, 119 “Thetis’s hair stone,” 29 Thevenot, M. de, 231 Thiers, Mme., pearl necklace of, 389 Thomas, St., 268, 271 Thoth, named “Trismegistos” by the Greeks, 320 “Thunder-stones,” 76, 86, 83, 92, 94, 106–116, 161, 350 Thurston, Sir J., 366 Tiberius Cæsar, 291, 292 Tibetan jewelry, 341 Tiffany and Co., 373 Timoteus, St., 252 Toad-stone, 162–167, 192 Tobit, Book of, 243, 250 Tofte, Richard, 61 Tohargar, angel of August, 247 Topaz, 11, 58, 124, 287, 290, 291, 372, 407 curative use of, 158, 159 etymology of name, 403 “Maxwell-Stuart,” 404 Tourmaline, 51–60, 384, 407 as Peace Stone, 58 brought to Holland from Ceylon, 52 experiments on, by Aepinus, 54 by Lémery in 1717, 55 from Mount Mica, Maine, 51 letter of Franklin on, 57, 58 named Aschentrekker by Dutch, 52 story of, “My Tourmaline,” by Helen Hunt Jackson, 51, 52 Trallianus, Alexander, 144 Trephining in primitive times to obtain skull-talismans, 332, 333