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August Birthstone - Peridot

Peridot jewellery has been known as the august birthstone since the creation of the Gregorian calender. This calender had matching poems for every birthstone, the poem for the august birthstone is below:

'Wear a peridot or for thee,
No conjugal fidelity,
The August born without this stone,
`Tis said, must live unloved; alone.'

The peridot symbolises luck and success. These stones were originally collected on the Isle of St. John in the Red Sea around 1500 B.C. for the Egyptian kings. Legend has it that, to exert its fullest power, peridot should be " set in gold and worn thus, dispels fear of the dark and is a potent amulet against all evil".
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