Turquoise Jewelry Silver Tear Drop French Hook Earrings.

These Turquoise Jewelry Silver Tear Drop French Hook Earrings are absolutely ravishing. Turquoise jewelry like these earrings are high in fashion because of its earthy look and natural elegance. Each earring in this pair features a hand cut tear drop stone of genuine Turquoise. Each Turquoise stone appears in a setting of Sterling Silver. These lost wax Sterling Silver earrings feature traditional southwestern runner designs on the edges. Turquoise and Silver, the perfect combination. Non Indian made. The fine pieces of Turquoise jewelry hang from their French Hooks at a length of 1-1/8".

In Indian folklore it is said that there was once a chief with turquoise colored skin. One day he was running from his enemies in the hot desert. Whenever he stopped to rest, his perspiration ran onto the ground, collected in rocks and became turquoise.

There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit.