GARNET

Some practical information:

It is composed of silicate of aluminium and iron. His colour of the red with brown, sometimes turned purple. Hardness: 6.5-7.5/10.
Origin: Austria, Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Sri Lanka, Czechoslovakia.

The origin of its name comes from a city of Asia Minor.

For his Purification, leave it some seconds under cold water or use some frankincense, and recharge it with a lot sun or on a mass of quartz.
It is suitable for the signs of the ram, scorpion and bull

That it brings us:

Strengthen, speed up and reinforce the instinct of survival, bringing courage and hope in difficult situations. Augment the assimilation of selenium and zinc be therefore profitable to hair.

Legends and superstitions

The garnet was a stone very appreciated in Greece, in Rome and even in Europe, but it lost the fascination which it exercised towards the end of Renaissance.
The most appreciated variety was carbuncle. It represented fidelity, constancy and the sincerity of feelings, and warmed up the sad hearts.
They also lend him power to attract success, to be productive assiduous and to augment courage.

In Egypt ancient it was being supposed to do protect the new born of poor fate.