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 themselves.
c.
1240
BARTHOLOMAEUS
De Proprietatibus Rerum
(tr. Trevisa, XVI 48)
Gagate [amber] … ...