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Hadn’t he once, long ago, heard of bezoars?

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

At Ormuz they trade most for precious stones27—fine bezoars, turquoises, chrysolites, amethysts, jacinths, garnets, topazes from Cahanor, Calecut, and Cambaya, copper wire, and not very good agates.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Most of the counterfeit bezoars come from Succadanea in Borneo.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert

To show his vigilance the Chief of the Odours offered the Suffet a little malobathrum to taste in an electrum spoon; then he pierced three Indian bezoars with an awl.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

These several coats are of different thicknesses, in proportion to the size of the bezoars; and the larger is the stone so much the more is it in request.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert