Meaning of alectorian | Babel Free

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“Stones of baser sort, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible.”

“Who would not carry about him the alectorian stone, which, held in the mouth, ensures the mastery of the event, appeases thirst, and quells the ardours of the heart?”

“Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.”

“My patients could obtain from my shops, at their choice, aphrodisiac spectacles or ones that cure love; spectacles made of alectorian stone that cancel the harmful effect of poisons, others made of chrysoprase that have the gift of strengthening weakened wills; spectacles that procure a grandiose, thrilling idea of the world, or ones that reduce it to the dimensions of a reading room . . . ones that give a blue view of life or a rose-tinted view; spectacles that induce dreams or suppress them ... in a word, the most fantastic assortment of spectacles imaginable.”

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