[Jewelry making - Article 00080] - Re: [Orchid] Opal Stories and bad luck myth

[Gary Bourbonais]

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>         "In the nineteenth century, opal was considered unlucky due to
>     the plot of a popular Sir Walter Scott novel of the time. The
>     heroine of the novel has her life force caught in the beautiful
>     opal she wears in her hair and she dies when the fire in the opal
>     is extinguished." from the International Colored Gemstone
>     Association. 

    The novel mentioned is Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein"...
    Another opal story I've heard is that wearing an opal is bad luck
    unless you were born in October... 

    If you want to get a fun book about gemestone lore, find a copy of
    "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones" by George Fredrick Kunz (named
    kunzite after him)... 

Gary W. Bourbonais


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