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 Stone of Stumbling.Stones. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Stone of Tongues.
 
This was a stone given to Otnit, King of Lombardy, by his father dwarf Elberich, and had the virtue, when put into a person’s mouth, of enabling him to speak perfectly any foreign language. (The Heldenbuch.)   1
 


 Stone of Stumbling.Stones. 

 
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