BLOODSTONE
Hardness: 7 Other characteristics
| A variety of Jasper, this stone is primarily associated with the bloodstream. It encourages acts of kindness and charity. Bloodstone was once used as an amulet in belief that it would stop bleeding. Creatures of the forest are attracted to this stone. Healing: nerves, biliousness, blood, digestion. |
From the Aberdeen Bestiary Project
The bloodstone is of this nature: if you place it in a vessel facing the sun, it makes the sun turn red and causes a new eclipse; it also makes the vessel boil and spill water if it is full. Anyone wearing it can foretell much of the future. It bestows praise on a man, and good health. It staunches a flow of blood and works against poison and trickery. If you wear it together with the herb of the same name, you can go where you want, invisible, using the appropriate spell. The bloodstone comes from Ethiopia and Africa. It is of the colour of the emerald with blood-coloured marks.