[LegendHasIt]

That and the belief that it prevented drunkenness and cured hangovers.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"That and the belief that it prevented drunkenness and cured hangovers."

Discussed here. "The name Amethyst derives from the Greek word ametusthos, meaning “not intoxicated"

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