Possibly loadstone with an alchemical connection.
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Bill East wrote:
> One text speaks of "straw" being drawn to a
> >(magnetic?) stone. What might this mean?
> >
> Amber? Nowadays we can pick up pieces of paper etc. with a comb after combing
> our hair. This presumably would have been equally possible in antiquity with
> an amber comb. Actually the charge is electric (from elektra, the word for
> amber) rather than magnetic, but one would hardly expect the old folks to
> distinguish.
>
> Oriens.
>
>
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