A little charm goes a long way The spirit of Connal MacNeil has been waiting centuries for his betrothed to appear on Scotland’s roaring shores. Josie’s arrival with the MacNeil charm stone is his dream come true.
Author: Donna Kauffman
Publisher: Bantam
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Traveling to Williamsburg, Virginia, reporter Jean Fairbairn and ex-cop Alasdair Cameron investigate after a replica of a sixteenth-century Witch Box is stolen and the man who made the replica is found murdered.
Author: Lillian Stewart Carl
Publisher: Five Star (ME)
ISBN: 9781594147708
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Two so - called Toad - stones formerly in use in Scotland are still in existence ,
one of which is in the Museum at Kirkcudbright and the other in private hands .
They differ from the true toad - stones already mentioned in being merely small ...
Author: George Fraser Black
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Charms for Cenom . OT many years ago it was a popular belief that a stone
brought from Ireland possessed the virtue of curing cattle that had the misfortune
to have been envenomed by the bite of an adder or similar reptile . Not only were
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It is not to be wondered at if stones possessing special peculiarities of form or
colour should have been selected as endowed with mysterious influence .
Doubtless in this way many charm - stones that have come down to recent times
may ...
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of curing - stones in the Highlands , owing to the reticence of those who still have
faith in their virtues . ... Martin gives some curious information with regard to the
employment of charm - stones , among the inhabitants of the Western Isles .
Author: James Murray Mackinlay
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... and I had noticed that the greater portion of the charm - stones found appear to
be made of rocks not found in the localities where the implements were used ;
and the fact that many of them are of fine workmanship and raro material would
go ...
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... and I had noticed that the greater portion of the charm - stones found appear to
be made of rocks not found in the localities where the implements were used ;
and the fact that many of them are of fine workmanship and rare material would
go ...
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Nervously he began to rub his thumb over the polished green charm stone that
was attached halfway down the short wooden rod of the thrower . " Rub it well ,
my son , " said Running Fox , " that stone has guided my spears straight many
times ...
Author: Margaret Zehmer Searcy
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John A. Henderson. Robertson Clan Charm-Stone.— A detailed notice of the
charm-stone of the Clan Donnachie or Robertson is given in Notes and Queries,
8th S.V., 384. The notice is extracted from A Brief Account of the Clan Donnaehie,
...
Author: John Bulloch
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In fact , the use of stones as amulets still lingers on in the northern parts of this
country . There is in the National Museum at Edinburgh ? a flat oval pebble , 2 }
inches long , which was worn as a charm in a small bag hung by a red string
round ...
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Such were the rumours which spread around ; and worn by much excitement,
with nerves unstrung by many a wakeful night, there were many to believe it all,
and, as a practical application, to buy the peach-stone charms, until eventually
they ...
Author: William Arthur Cornaby
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2 Do thou , O Bowstring , bend thyself around us : make my body stone . Firm in
thy strength drive far away malignities and ... This hymn is a charm against acute
diarrhea or dysentery . The metre is Dvipadâ Trishțup , consisting of three pâdas
...
Author: Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith
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CURING STONE . An oval water - worn stone of white quartz which was used as
a charm to resist the evil eye , was kept over the lintel of the byre door at the small
croft of Cachladhu , a mile east from St. Fillans on the south side of the Earn .
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Ceylon charms are believed to cause swoons , imprisonment and death ; they
scare and control fiends , cure diseases ... Three spirits appear and pass into the
charm.25 To annoy a house by showering stones at it , a trick common in India
and ...
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The Ardvorlich Stone was one of the most famous of the curing stones in the
Highlands of Scotland , and it was the last of them ... ( 1202 ) Lent by COLONEL
STEWART , C.I.E. , R.A. ROCK - CRYSTAL CHARM STONE , for protection of
cattle .
Author: James Paton
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Nervously he began to rub his thumb over the polished green charm stone that
was attached halfway down the short wooden rod of the thrower. "Rub it well, my
son," said Running Fox, "that stone has guided my spears straight many times.
Author: Searcy, Margaret Zehmer
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602032
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For it is perfectly natural that the different kinds of stone used in its successive
courses should be of different colours ; and ... of the alternation of light and
darkness , which was above noted as the source of the charm of many inferior
mouldings ...
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It therefore seems not unlikely that the manufacture of stone implements ,
employing great skill , was confined to special ... In passing , I may here observe
that the so called “ charm - stones ” from Guiana , of which there are two
examples in the ...
Author: sir Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn
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For it is perfectly natural that the different kinds of stone used in its successive
courses should be of different colors ; and ... of the alternation of light and
darkness , which was above noted as the source of the charm of many inferior
mouldings ...
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