The magic of jewels and charms

by George Frederick Kunz

[502]. De Lespinasse, “Les métiers et corporations de la ville de Paris,” Paris, 1892, p. 11.

[503]. Nature, vol. lxxxvi, p. 429; Oct. 6, 1910.

[504]. Bellucci, “Il feticismo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 113–119. Figures.

[505]. Pettigrew, “On Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Medicine and Surgery,” p. 36. (Quotation from Melton, “Astrologaster,” p. 20.)

[506]. Notes and Queries, 2d Series, vol. viii, London, 1859, p. 242.

[507]. Wehrenfels, “A Dissertation on Superstition,” p. 36; prefixed to “Occasional Thoughts on the Power of Curing the King’s-Evil,” London, 1748.

[508]. Lean’s Collectanea, vol. i, Bristol, 1902, pp. 373–384.

[509]. Johann Joachim Bellermann, “Die Urim und Thummim, die ältesten Gemmen,” Berlin, 1824, pp. 21, 22. For a full account of the breastplate see the present writer’s “The Curious Lore of Precious Stones,” Philadelphia and London, 1913, chap. viii, pp. 275–306.

[510]. Wallace-Dunlop, “Glass in the Old World,” London, n. d., p. 6.

[511]. From “Jewellers’ Circular Weekly,” Nov. 12, 1913.