The Charm Stone
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
Page: 389
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Scottish Charms and Amulets
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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The Monthly Chronicle of North country Lore and Legend
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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 ...
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs
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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Page: 364
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
... 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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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
... 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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The Charm of the Bear Claw Necklace
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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Page: 68
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Scottish Notes and Queries
The Ancient Stone Implements Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain
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 ...
Author: John Evans
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A String of Chinese Peach stones
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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Page: 479
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The Hymns of the Atharvaveda
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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Archaeological Review
Indian Antiquary
Scottish National Memorials
The Charm of the Bear Claw Necklace
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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The Stones of Venice The foundations
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 ...
Author: John Ruskin
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On some stone implements from British Guiana a paper
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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Works of John Ruskin The stones of Venice
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 ...
Author: John Ruskin
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