Pendant, Necklace with Thunderbolt with Gold-Tone Wire and Amber, Epoxy Resin

A small piece of geological history - approx. 170 million years to 66 million years old - collected by me myself on Rügen on the steep coast / Baltic Sea coast and Fossil of the Month September 2022! The ancient Germanic tribes and Vikings also integrated thunderbolts into their jewelry. So why not wear a piece of geological history, beautifully prepared, around your neck?

2 thunderbolt parts - joined together in the middle with amber, embellished with gold leaf and dipped in epoxy resin so that everything shines a little. The pendants are provided with a leather strap that can be adjusted in length and sliding knots. The thunderbolt is about 5 cm in size.

Belemnites are also called "thunderbolts" or "devil's fingers" and are parts of prehistoric squid. Thunderbolts are fossilized parts of the shell of an extinct cephalopod, i.e. a real fossil and are said to have great healing and protective effects, and are also considered lucky charms that you wear on chains around your neck or when you carry them in your pocket. The belief that a thunderbolt is supposed to protect its wearer from lumbago is particularly popular. So far I haven't had lumbago – maybe it's true!



Here again the exact scientific information about thunderbolts:

"Belemnites or thunderbolts are the fossilized "oars" of cephalopods that lived in the then existing primordial oceans between 358 and 70 million years ago. On the basis of fossil whole-body finds, the shape of the so-called cephalopods could be reconstructed and the similarity to the squid that exist today could be determined.

Like squid, cephalopods also consisted of a protective body - proostracum, in which there was a kind of swim bladder (so-called phragmocon). At the rear end of the creature was a pointed, elongated hardening that served to navigate in the water: the rostrum. That rostrum was layered from the mineral aragonite and represents the fossil part known as the thunderbolt." (www.steine-und-minerale.de/fossilien/d/donnerkeil.html)