Wirt Sikes, “British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Myths, Legends
and Traditions,” London, 1880, p. 365.
Footnote 75:
Father Lambert, “Moeurs et Superstitions des Néo-Calédoniens,” Noumea,
1900, pp. 217, 218, 222, 292–304.
Footnote 76:
See Scott’s “Border Minstrelsy,” vol. iv, Pt. II, p. 645.
Footnote 77:
Lean’s Collectanea (by Vincent Stuckey Lean), vol. ii, Pt. I, Bristol,
1903, p. 476; see W. F. Wademan in Jour. Roy. Hist, and Arch. Assoc.
of Ireland, July, 1875.
Footnote 78:
Catalogue of the collection of pearls and precious stones formed by
Henry Philip Hope, Esq. Systematically arranged and described by B.
Hertz, London, 1830.
Footnote 79:
Op. cit., p. 106.
Footnote 80:
Op. cit., No. 66, p. 106.
Footnote 81:
Op. cit., No. 65, p. 106.
Footnote 82:
Valentini, “Museum Museorum, oder der Vollständige Schau-Bühne,”
Franckfurt am Mayn, 1713, Pt. II, p. 41; figured.
Footnote 83:
Ulyssis Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, p. 527;
figured on p. 528.
Footnote 84:
Valentini, “Museum Museorum,” p. 42; citing description by Major in
his “Tractatus de cancris et lapidibus petrifactis,” p. 64.
Footnote 85:
Ibid., p. 42; Pl. IX, fig. 3.
Footnote 86:
Ibid., p. 41; figured. From report in Miscellan. Acad. Germ. Cur.,
Decur. I, Ann. I, Obs. CXIII, p. 232.
Footnote 87:
Athanasii Kircheri, “Mundus subterraneus,” Amstelodami, 1665, vol. ii,
pp. 42 sqq.
Footnote 88:
Op. cit., vol. i, p. 39; Pl. IV, fig. 6.
Footnote 89:
Scribner & Co., 1886.
Footnote 90:
The Germans called it Aschenzieher.
Footnote 91:
Pliny, “Naturalia historia,” Lib. xxxvii, cap. 29. In his recently
published “Curious Lore of Precious Stones” the present writer
suggested that Pliny’s _lychnis_ might have been a spinel, but while
some of these “ardent stones” may have been spinels, those displaying
the phenomenon of attraction must have been tourmalines.
Footnote 92:
A. C. Hamlin.
Footnote 93:
Theophrasti, “De lapidibus, peri tôn lithôn,” ed. by John Hill,
London, 1746, pp. 71–73 (cap. xlvi).
Footnote 94:
Idem, pp. 68–71 (cap. xlvi); see also Hill’s note on p. 69.
Footnote 95:
Johannis de Laet, Antwerpii, “De gemmis et lapidibus, libri duo,”
Lugduni Batavorum [1647], pp. 36, 40.
Footnote 96:
“_Curiose Speculationes_ bey schlaflosen Nächten ... von einem
_L_iebhaber der _I_mmer _G_ern _S_peculirt,” Chemnitz und Leipzig, bey
Conr. Stosseln, 1707, 857, pp. 80.
Footnote 97:
Johann Gustav Donndorf, “Natur und Kunst,” Leipzig, 1790, p. 516.
Footnote 98:
“Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres,” vol.
xii, 1756; Berlin, 1758, pp. 105–121.
Footnote 99:
See Historie de l’Académie Royale des Sciences Année mdcccxvii Paris,
1719, pp. 7, 8.
Footnote 100:
Abbé Haüy, “Trattato dei caratteri fisici delle pietre preziose,”
Ital. trans. by Luigi Configliachi, Milano, 1819, pp. 135–138; see
Plate II, fig. 49.
Footnote 101:
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