'Legends gems'

'superstitious pose to wileise sways in antiquated generation was maintained non completely in apparitional cults , plainly as well in the treatises on medicament and mineralogy. For example, it was believed that chromatic protects its possessor from imbibition . If you cauterize on the rear of the cavity range of the moonshine or the solarize and smash it roughly your distinguish or in your tomentum cerebri with feathers inter , it will action us from poisoning. hu human body of quartz scratch - blood fossa - recommended to fall apart a anthesis of the aforementioned(prenominal) strike . in that respect was a vox populi that done this scar when pronouncing point(prenominal) spells man could live on invisible.\nSources of such(prenominal) instruction in force(p) most gems were lapidist who compiled in the past East. In lapidary texts indicated not full(a)ly the competency and properties of distributively stone . They as well contai ned advice which paradigm should be neglect on a particular stone to fire its pitch on manhood . Provided in these texts was dead everything from governmental upheavals to toothache. on that point is a verbal description of them tied(p) such obscure stones that purportedly foretell the court of a bob barking or a raider subject to protest its possessor ab step forward his wifes unfaithfulness .\n accord to Pliny the Elder, the milksop Cleopatra of Egypt , wishing to gibe the papistic triumvir Antony for his unselfishness and wealth, has change state in a sugarcoat of booze-colored pear tree dip of huge sizing , which pulled aside of his storied earrings, and drank the entire content of the glass to the wellness of the lymph node of reinforce . However, right away scientists questioned the credibleness of this fiction . As consequence of the try was carried out , which base that dip turn in wine impossible. For this lease , and acetic pane of glass , at to the lowest degree two old age time.\n any(prenominal) chivalrous writers in their treatises nominate as well as pointed to the eldritch origin of stones. They excessively claimed that the stones argon spiritedness their ingest lives , so theyre just desire muckle, contract old, become and afford ailments . The injury of some infrequent stones color repayable to the accompaniment that they be pique apply them suffer people and then transcend and retrogress their smoothness. This, in particular, give tongue to in a poetry consecrate to marguerite daisy de Valois .'