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Cat’s Eye Chrysoberyl

Cat’s eye chrysoberyl, also called cymophane, gets the cat’s eye description from the resemblance of the stone’s eye to the narrow iris of a cat’s eye. The name chrysoberyl comes form the Greek chrysos (a reference to the golden color).

Lore

Cat's eyes are thought to protect against witchcraft and assaults of the devil upon the soul.  Once believed to guard the wearer against physical danger and enable one to weather all storms."

"No gems have afforded more interest to the Oriental peoples than those that are known as phenomenal gems; that is, such as exhibit a phenomenal quality, either as a moving line as in the chrysoberyl cat's-eye, or the quartz cat's-eye, or as a star, a class represented by the star-sapphire and the star-ruby, all these being considered to bring good fortune to the wearer." ¹

^{1)  George Frederick Kunz "The curious Lore of Precious Stones"}

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