The magic of jewels and charms

by George Frederick Kunz

[392]. “Museum Wormianum,” Lug. Bat., 1655, pp. 7–9.

[393]. Aldrovandi, “Museum metallicum,” Bononiæ, 1648, lib. iv, cap. 10, p. 600.

[394]. “Museum Wormianum,” Lug. Bat., 1655, p. 65.

[395]. This is the fossilized horny part of the tail of an extinct cuttlefish, and numerous specimens have been found in the marl of New Jersey as well as in many other places.

[396]. Gesneri, “De figuris lapidum,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 89, verso, 90, recto.

[397]. Mercati, “Metallotheca Vaticana,” Romæ, 1719, pp. 138–139. Figure on p. 138.

[398]. Andree, “Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche,” New Ser., Leipzig, 1889, p. 33.

[399]. Reichii, “Medicina Universalis” [Vratislaviæ, 1691], p. 76. See Fig. 4, opp. p. 72.

[400]. De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” ed. Toll, Lug. Bat., 1647, p. 410; lib. ii, cap. ccxxvii, and also De Laet, “De gemmis et lapidibus,” Lug. Bat., 1647, p. 138.

[401]. Ibid., p. 300; lib. ii, cap. cxlviii.