The Curious Lore of Precious Stones Being a description of their sentiments and folk lore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination. Cryst

Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and ligatures have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_ and superscripts thus y^{en}. The position of hand drawn hieroglyphs has been indicated thus [hieroglyph]. All other examples of text within braces is original. Huntilite, in the index, possibly refers to Heliolite in the text, but it is not clear which is intended. The 510 footnotes are located at the end of the book. The Curious Lore of Precious Stones LIPPINCOTT’S PRACTICAL BOOKS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF HOME LIFE THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF DECORATIVE WALL-TREATM…

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