Capitolo 65
The superstition respect to the jewel in the head of the toad was a
oddly persistent one: it is difficult to imagine that that indeed
foundation would be been able to be never for the idea there. An old writer
it gives directions to find this stone that the toad in his/her life
time seems to have protected more attentively. "A good rare way to get
the stone out of a toad", he says, "it is to put a... toad... in
a pot of earth: puts the same in the hillocke of an ant and cover
the same with earth that the toad... the ants will eat, so that the
bones... and stone will have gone away to the pot." Boethius was once
on every looking evening a toad in the hope that is probable that abandonments
his/her treasure; but he complained that nothing resulted to gratify
the great torments of the restlessness of his/her whole night."
An old Irish legend says that "the stone Diamond in the earth of
India grows anybody more cold in some wind or snow or ice; there is no heat
in him under burning covers with grassy sod" (this is such touch of Hibernian! The
combustible peat it was the Celtic idea of a system of heating), "nothing is
broken by him striking of axes and hammers; there is a thing
only interruptions that you/they take to blows, the blood of the lamb to the Mass; and
every king before going which you/he/she has taken that stone in his/her correct hand
in battle, you/he/she has always earned the victory." There is also a
the superstition respect to the stone Hibien that is said that I/you/he/she blaze,
as an ardent candle in the obscurity, "it pours him first out poison
it in a vase; every snake that comes near to it or crosses it
it dies on the moment." Another stone revered in Irish legend is the
Stone of Istien later which is found "in the brains of dragons
their deaths", and a still more able jewel the Stone seems to be
of Fanes among which you/he/she has asked that the sun, lands on the moon, and twelve
stars will be sights. "In the hearts of the dragons it is always
you find that takes their trip under the sea. Anybody that has him in
its hand can say some lie until him you/he/she has put him from him; anybody run or