People in the earliest recorded times believed in the magical power of quartz crystals.

In addition, new evidence shows that history is much older and much more advanced than what our history books have recorded—advanced not only from a technological point of view but also in consciousness. Many stories of aboriginals and indigenous peoples around the world attest to this, extending back into the Bronze Age and Neolithic prehistory.

E. A. E. Reymond, in The Mythical Origin...