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Show MYTH AND MAGIC ) h o Cepvrurht. ie:s. (Xw T.rk EvMilng World) fleas PatUehloa Ce. LUMINOUS JEWEL. Ths notion of luminous Jewels In Saatern legend Is of frequent occurrence. occur-rence. In the Talmud It Is sold that Noah while In the Ark had no llahta other than that obtained from precious stones. Abraham, being jealous of bis many wives, is reputed to have built a wail around them eo high aa to ahut out the tlaht of dayl Aa a remedy for the darkness he supplied a basin of precloue etonee "which shed a light equal to the eye of day." It la fabled that Praetor John's house was furnished with light by day from gold and by night from a huge carbuncle! And that Alexander the Or.at found a precloue atone In the belly of a fish which he used at alxht aa a lamp. Tn the "Forty Vastrs a dome Is described de-scribed composed of a single carbuncle alx feet In diameter which eerved to Illuminate the temple et nlaht. In many plarea lewel iampe ara trtnllon In ancl-nt wrtllnra, |