The known connoisseur and admirer of jewels George Кунц collected unique collection of myths in the book, legends and magic histories about minerals. He enthrallingly tells about the ancient beliefs sanctified to the toamulets and talismans, about astrologic predictions and mystic feeling that from ancient times people based both on magic and on real properties of semiprecious stones. An author analyses and explains the extraordinarily difficult symbolics of stones, in that to such degree believed at all times, that at times the fates of whole dynasties changed dramatic character, and also offers to the readers to understand the last through centuries legends of different people and take advantage of their experience, to find own stone-keeper.