| my grandmother passed away, she bequeathed me | | | | the antique bracelet had reportedly been given as a |
| her antique amethyst bracelet. This antique bracelet, I | | | | wedding gift to my great ancestor by a nobleman. |
| later learned, had about as many stories as she had, | | | | She at one time could actually lay claim to half of a |
| and that was plenty. Her amethyst bracelet had been | | | | rich, fertile region, and rode proudly on a horse, |
| in the family for generations, as are the case with | | | | surveying all she posessed, the antique bracelet was |
| many antique bracelets, an heirloom viewed as | | | | one of many beautiful pieces of jewelry that adorned |
| beyond all value, and cherished and for generations | | | | her person. |
| to come. | | | | In the antique bracelet was mysteriously |
| The antique bracelet went way back to the | | | | unaccounted for for quite some time. There evidence |
| “old world,” to her mother's upbringing | | | | that there was some sort of a few with a |
| in the area now known as the Czech republic. At that | | | | neighboring nobleman that may account for its |
| time, the antique bracelet was the only true thing | | | | disappearance. Apparently it was pretty bad, because |
| that could be said to of that value of her family's | | | | there is a long and elaborate record of the dead. As |
| possessions. Her journal spoke of a beautiful | | | | far as we know, it became so there that even their |
| amethyst bracelet, which her mother would not even | | | | manor was burned to the ground, and the antique |
| venture outside a house with that on for fear of | | | | bracelet was one of the items that was destroyed |
| loosing it or having someone taken from her. My | | | | by the fire. |
| grandmother's earliest memory is of watching the | | | | One of my ancestors became obsessed with the |
| sun's rays dance off the face of the beautiful antique | | | | amethyst bracelet, and spent a great deal of time |
| bracelet, as her mother rocked back and forth in her | | | | and effort trying to locate its, until the beautiful |
| old rocking chair in her small village. But the origins of | | | | antique bracelet was hers again. She succeeded and I |
| that antique bracelet, that the one amethyst | | | | was glad. But it was also rather foolhardy because |
| bracelet, predated her by quite a bit as well. The | | | | the family itself was wanted by the other family to |
| antique bracelet went back all the way to the | | | | be put to death after having come out on the short |
| marriage of my great, great, great grandmother. I | | | | end of the feud, and spent such a long time in hiding |
| don't know exactly how old that is but there sure | | | | that they eventually became peasants just like |
| are a lot of greats in that one. | | | | almost everyone else back then, but the beautiful |
| The family has since then fallen on hard times I'm | | | | amethyst bracelet is the last remaining remnants and |
| sorry to say, they once had been quite well-off, and | | | | of a once proud and noble clan. |