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Originally Posted by Icelander
Has anyone done any work in reflecting the enormous number of real world beliefs about the mystical association of gemstones in Ritual Path Magic?
How would one implement using expensive and appropriate gemstones as the material for Charms of the right kind of magic, for example?
What are gemstones appropriate for working ice magic?
Or ones associated with entropy, either accelerating or slowing it?
What gemstones have evil reputations and associations with harmful magic? And what are some cool legends and myths that explain why?
Can anyone direct me to a good source, online for free or ebook available for purchase, which collects the associations precious stones have in various traditions, ideally with fun citations to medieval lapidaries and other esoteric sources, in a clear and gamable manner?
Basically, is there anything in the least bit like a Supressed Transmission, Pyramid article or meticulously researched GURPS supplement available for gemstones and ritual magic?
Or, perhaps, simply a well written book of popular scholarship on the subject?
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For a primary source you could check out
Theophrastus On Stones and maybe Pliny's natural history. I think that there was a classical tradition that diamonds were made from ice of the Hindu Kush.