Anachitis

In divination, an anachitis, or anancitis,^[1] meaning "stone of necessity"^[2] is a stone used to call up spirits from water.^[3] It was described as a type of diamond by Martin Ruland the Elder.^[1]

The stone was used in classical antiquity by the Magi, being described by Pliny the Elder as one of their "dreadful lies".^[4] Its use had fallen out of favour by the Middle Ages.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Rulandus, Martin the Elder (1612). A Lexicon of Alchemy or Alchemical Dictionary. Frankfurt.
^ Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (1993) . Tyson, Donald (ed.). Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Freake, James (tr.). Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 42. ISBN 0-87542-832-0.
^ Smedley, Edward; Taylor, W. Cooke; Thompson, Henry; Rich, Elihu (1855). Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge. London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin. p. 350.
^ French, Roger (1994). Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 0-415-08880-1.
^ Evans, Joan (2004). Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Particularly in England. Kessinger Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 0-7661-8224-X.

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[rulandus-1] Rulandus, Martin the Elder (1612). A Lexicon of Alchemy or Alchemical Dictionary. Frankfurt.

[2] Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (1993) . Tyson, Donald (ed.). Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Freake, James (tr.). Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 42. ISBN 0-87542-832-0.

[3] Smedley, Edward; Taylor, W. Cooke; Thompson, Henry; Rich, Elihu (1855). Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge. London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin. p. 350.

[4] French, Roger (1994). Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 0-415-08880-1.

[5] Evans, Joan (2004). Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Particularly in England. Kessinger Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 0-7661-8224-X.

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