*Aventurine*

*Color: green, blue, or red
*A variety of quartz.
*Universal love, truth & prosperity.
*Appears tightly packed with metallic speckles.
*It is sometimes called Indian jade.
*Independence, health, well-being, peace, calming, luck, intelligence, creativity, leadership and fun.

Kumiho

by Charles La Shure

 
Kumiho means, literally, “nine-tailed fox.” The following description appears (word for word) in both the Donga Color World Encyclopedia (Tonga wonsaek segye paekhwasajeon) and the Dusan Great World Encyclopedia (Tusan segye taebaekhwasajeon):
“A fox with nine tails that commonly appears in the oral tales of our country. It can freely transform into, among other things, a bewitching girl that seduces men. A fox that lives a thousand years is said to turn into a kumiho. There are a number of legendary tales in which the kumiho appears.” A half dozen or so of those legendary tales can be found in the encyclopedic Compendium of Korean Oral Literature (Hanguk kubimunhak taegye). A quick look at them will help supplement the brief description given above.

Kusarikku

by Adam Lombard

The Mesopotamian bull-man, human above the waist and a bull below.