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a green gem freckled with red, once believed to be Christ's blood frozen mid-fall.
means A dark green variety of chalcedony quartz speckled with spots of red jasper, prized as a semi-precious stone since antiquity.
from A plain compound of "blood" and "stone," naming exactly what the eye sees: green rock spotted with crimson. Its older name is heliotrope, from Greek hēlios (sun) and trepein (to turn), because ancients believed the stone, dropped in water, could turn the sun's reflection blood-red. The medieval Christian story renamed it — those red flecks were said to be the blood of Christ fallen onto green jasper at the foot of the Cross — which is how "bloodstone" came to stick.
- old name
- called heliotrope, meaning sun-turner in Greek
- the red
- iron oxide masquerading as ancient bloodspatter
- march birthstone
- shared the slot with aquamarine for centuries
- warrior gem
- Roman soldiers carried it to staunch wounds
- invisibility myth
- medieval lore claimed it hid its bearer entirely
heliotrope bloodstone — dark green chalcedony with red iron oxide spots, mined in india and used as ornamental stone since ancient times
bloodstone district scotland — region in the scottish highlands known for deposits of bloodstone gemstone used historically in cameos and seals