Friday's Featured Item is a Red Agate Necklace - a beautifully bright and fiery necklace with assorted red Agate stones and brown coconut pendant attached.
Red Agate is a fascinating quartz that is also known as Blood Agate, and was worn in ancient Rome to guard against insect bites, to heal the blood, and to promote calm and peace.
It belongs to the extended Agate family and occurs as nodular masses found in volcanic rocks. When opened these nodules reveal amazing colours (from the silica rich fluids) and patterns, and agates can be opaque, waxy or translucent.
It was not only the Romans who believed that Agate had numerous benefits, however:
- Ancient man carried Agate to ensure a bountiful crop, to ward off skin diseases, and used it in love spells to avoid envious thoughts and to remove spite.
- Greek sailors believed Agate reinforced strength and provided protection, and used it in the 4th Century to overcome fear of ocean storms.
- Agate jewellery was given to children to be worn as protective amulets as Agate was thought to prevent children from falling.
- Agates were a popular talisman in the Middle East to ensure the healthy state of the blood, and many Moslims claimed that powdered Agate drunk in water would cure insanity, sharpen eyesight, increase physical strength, and alleviate thirst.
- The Book of Saxon Leechdoms said in 1864 that Agate prevents harm from thunder, sorcery, demonic possession, poison, disease, drunkenness, and skin eruptions.
In modern times New Age Mystics believe that agate will prevent nightmares, help eyesight, improve blood circulation, strengthen the heart, stomach, and hair, protect children from falls, prevent poisonings and give you extra courage or extra energy to relieve stress.
*We can’t guarantee that our necklace will stop you falling over or cure insanity, but it may help you get noticed and fall in love, so if you’re interested in this necklace (£25.00) please visit http://www.prettypink.eu/product,25357,Red_Agate_Necklace.html
