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The [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] [[grimoire]], ''[[Sefer Raziel HaMalakh]]'' was said to be inscribed on sapphire plates which were then handed to Adam by [[Metatron]]. A similar legend says the same plates were given to Noah before the flood.
The [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] [[grimoire]], ''[[Sefer Raziel HaMalakh]]'' was said to be inscribed on sapphire plates which were then handed to Adam by [[Metatron]]. A similar legend says the same plates were given to Noah before the flood.


An Italian superstition holds that sapphires are amulets against eye problems, and melancholy. Mary, Queen of Scots, owned a medicinal sapphire worn as a pendant to rub sore eyes.
An Italian superstition holds that sapphires are [[amulet]]s against eye problems, and melancholy. Mary, Queen of Scots, owned a medicinal sapphire worn as a pendant to rub sore eyes.


===Christianity===
===Christianity===