Fossil properties

[Hærfest Leah]

Fossils have properties also right. Specifically I want to know the properties for a sharks tooth, Megalodon to be exact. Going to get my husband one for his birthday.

[Scyllas]

The shark symbolizes great strength and the shark teeth bearing its image is believed to exert powerful control over any person who comes within its magical aura. In Hawaii and other parts of the world. It is believed by some that wearing shark’s teeth on a necklace will bring good fortune, keep away evil spirits and protect surfers against accidents and shark attacks.

***The following is taken from http://www.elasmo-research.org***

When fossilized shark teeth were first discovered embedded in terrestrial rocks - sometimes high up mountainsides and far from the sea - their origin was a complete enigma. Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79), the great Roman naturalist and compiler of the encyclopedic but credulous 37-volume Natural History, believed that they fell from the sky during lunar eclipses. They were later thought to be the tongues of serpents that Saint Paul had turned to stone while visiting the islands of Malta, which is how these curious objects came to be called glossopetrae ('tongue stones').

Glossopetrae were widely believed to have magical properties, most notably the ability to counter-act toxins of many kinds - from venom injected via snakebite to poison slipped by a would-be assassin into a king's chalice of wine. To work their magic, glossopetrae needed only to be held against a snake-bitten body part or plunked into a suspect glass of wine and any poisons therein would be quickly and irreversibly detoxified. Due to these marvelous supposed capabilities, many nobles and statesmen of the Middle Ages retained these 'tongue stones' as amulets, either worn about the neck as a pendant or kept secreted away in special pockets reserved for this purpose. The supposed magical properties of glossopetrae are, of course, without foundation and the result of pure wishful thinking; one wonders how many medieval politicians' suspicious deaths or illnesses are attributable to undue faith in the power of glossopetrae.

[Hærfest Leah]

Thank you, good info.

[Hærfest Leah]

Oh if anyone wants to see it, here is the huge Megalodon tooth I bought my husband.

http://megateeth.com/product.php?item=20

[Scyllas]

Oh wow!!