gems, famous gems, lore, history

Sinkankas: The first chapter, pages 1–46, presents a series of entertaining stories about the presumed occult powers of gemstones and their connection to good or bad fortune experienced by individuals or during events. The opening tale features Hermione’s opal from Sir Walter Scott’s Anne of Geierstein. In the preface, Crawford assures readers that these stories “may claim one merit: that of being true, most of them having been related to me by those whose actual experiences they are.”