Cock Stone
Also known as Capon Stone, Alectorius, Allectory, Alectoria, and Alectorian Stone.
A fabled stone, allegedly found in the crop of a cock. It is described to be about the size of a bean, clear as crystal, sometimes with veins the color of flesh.
A specimen of the Alectorius is listed in the inventories of Jean, Duc de Berry (1340-1416). It is called there a "capon-stone" and is described as having red and white spots, and to never exceeded the size of a bean.
According to occult tradition, Alectorius was a gem said to be found in the gizzard of a capon a rooster that had been castrated to improve the quality of its flesh for food. The bird was to be sterile for at least three years before the clear crystal could be harvested. Pliny affirmed that the cock had to be castrated when it was three years old, and the stone had to be harvested after the cock had lived another seven years after the procedure. This was believed to allow the substance to acquire its boasted virtues, for the longer it remained in the body of the capon, the greater its power.
From its association with the pugnacious fowl, the Alectorius became a favorite stone with ancient wrestlers, and the great and invincible Milo of Croton is said to have owned many of his victories to the possession of one, for if held in the mouth, the gem was said to quench the thirst and thus refresh the combatant. The famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) greatly valued a stone of this kind he possessed, not larger than a bean, and believed that it brought him luck in gambling and in love. Thomas de Cantimpre, the medieval writer, preacher, and theologian, said that it signified an allurer or enticer, because the stone was supposed to excite the love of husbands for their wives. In order to secure the due effect, the stone should be held in the mouth, possibly because this would render the wife less eloquent.
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Besides rendering wives agreeable to their husbands, other allegedly magical properties of the 'Cock Stone' were to dissolve enchantments, bring new honors and powers in addition to those already enjoyed, and to help kings acquire new dominions. The Romans called them gemma, literally 'cock's gem', and believed it to make its possessor invisible, in addition to rendering wealth beyond imagination.
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Sources: (1) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (2) Dictionary of the Occult, Caxton Publishing; (3) Bonner, Campbell, Studies in Magical Amulets, University of Michigan Press; (4) Budge, E. A. Wallis, Amulets and Talismans, Carol Publishing Corporation; (5) Walker, Barbara G., The Book of Sacred Stones: Fact and Fallacy in the Crystal World, Harper & Row.
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