Mary,
My mother had a friend in the 'thirties who was well known for possessing
the gift of healing sick pearls. When a string lost its gloss and began to
look yellow, she would wear it herself next to her skin, and in due course
the gloss would return, and the colour go back to the proper pearly hue. I
have always supposed that this "cure" was attributable to something in the
composition of the healer's perspiration or some other epidermal quality
possessed by her, which seems likely enough. I therefore had no difficulty
when I first read Kipling's reference to this phenomenon.
George Engle
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From: "mary hamer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:44 PM
Subject: 'sick pearls'
> Does anyone know what is meant when Lurgan is described as 'a healer of
> sick pearls'?
> i know pearls are quite vulnerabel and respond to the conditions they are
> kept iin -
>
> All specialist knowledge gratefully received.
>
>
> Mary Hamer
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