AMBER cures/protects

From: A Dictionary of Superstitions | Date: 1996| Author: | Copyright information

AMBER cures/protects
AD 77 PLINY Natural History XXXVII XI, XII (1857, VI 401, 404) At the present day we see the female peasantry … wearing necklaces of amber, principally as an ornament, no doubt, but on account of its remedial virtues as well … It is beneficial for infants also, attached to the body in the form of an amulet.

c. AD 750 EGBERT Penitential VIII 4 ( Councils & Eccles. Doc. , ed. A. W. Haddon & W. Stubbs, III 424) They trust they can protect themselves by … hanging diabolical amulets whether made from grass or amber on their people or ...

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