Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental
THE present and the following chapter are devoted to a study of the talismanic virtues attributed to precious stones and gems, as…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Egyptian
A Persian manuscript of a work entitled "Nozhet Namah Ellaiy," written in the eleventh century by Schem Eddin, the transcription being…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Heart
Chapter whereby the Heart is given to a person in the Netherworld. He saith: Heart mine to me, in the place of Hearts! Whole Heart mine to…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Thoth
For this Heart of mine is the Heart of the god of mighty names [Thoth], of the great god whose words are in his members, and who giveth…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Isaiah
The prophet Isaiah in his third chapter, where he scores the wantonness and vanity of the Daughters of Zion (vs. 16-26), enumerates in…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Judas
That some of the Hebrew patriots who fought under the banner of Judas Maccabaeus toward the middle of the second century B.C. were tinged…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Charlemagne
Of the many memorials of the Age of Charlemagne preserved in the Cathedral Treasury at Aachen, that popularly known as the Talisman of…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Josephine
In the summer of 1804, Empress Josephine went to Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) to take the waters there, and during her stay, on August 1, she…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Anglo-Saxon
An Anglo-Saxon treatise on the medical art, from the beginning of the tenth century, the original manuscript of which was owned by an…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Catherine
A remarkable talismanic bracelet owned by Catherine de' Medici was set with a skull-fragment and with a representation of a…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Roman
A perfectly round onyx, bearing graven in the centre the name or word "Publeni"; this possibly designated the original Roman owner of the…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Pascal
Among the believers in the virtue of amulets must be counted the French religious philosopher, Pascal. After his death in 1662 there was…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Vishnu
The footprints are explained by a curious legend to the effect that when a dispute as to superiority arose between the gods of the…
Amulets: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental: Tibetan
Coral ornaments of all sorts are in great demand in Tibet, and a fine piece of this material will bring about $20 an ounce, and is…