King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 399
ed by his will to be put on the finger of the Dukes of Burgundy, hissuccessors, at the ceremony of taking possession of the Duchy of Burgundy, in theChurch of St. Bemigius at Dijon. (Inventory of the Due de Bourgoyne, a.d. 1420.)The true nature of this ring is placed out of doubt by one in solid… … MAGICAL RINGS. The belief in talismans working in the form of rings goes back to themost remote antiquity. Plato in his Republic has preserved thelegend of the wondrous ring taken by the shepherd Gyges from off thefinger of some primaeval giant entombed within a brazen horse, andwhich, the beasil…
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