Anachitis

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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

  1. 1 2 Rulandus, Martin the Elder (1612). A Lexicon of Alchemy or Alchemical Dictionary. Frankfurt.
  2. ↑ Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (1993) [1531]. 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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