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Folklore

"In Exodus of the Hebrew bible, the "Breastplate of the High Priest" contains a white or colorless stone labeled µwlhy -- "yahalom." In the 3rd century BCE this word, which means "the smiter" in Hebrew, was translated to "adamas," "indomitable," in Greek, indicating that the stone was thought to be a diamond. But this interpretation is problematic: The size of the Breastplate would require a diamond measuring in inches -- extraordinarily large; the stones were engraved using emery -- impossible on diamond; and the text precedes knowledge of diamond outside of India. "Yahalom" is now interpreted as engraved onyx for pressing into clay seals."

Aristotle says that no one except Alexander ever reached the place where the diamond is produced. This is a valley, connected with the land Hind. The glance cannot penetrate to its greatest depths and serpents are found there, the like of which no man hath seen, and upon which no man can gaze without dying. However, this power endures only as long as the serpents live, for when they die the power leaves them . . . Now, Alexander ordered that an iron mirror should be brought and placed at the spot where the serpents dwelt. When the serpents approached, their glance fell upon their own image in the mirror, and this caused their death. Hereupon, Alexander wished to bring out the diamonds from the valley, but no one was willing to undertake the descent. Alexander therefore sought counsel of the wise men, and they told him to throw down a piece of flesh into the valley. This he did, the diamonds became attached to the flesh, and the birds of the air seized the flesh and bore it up out of the valley. Then Alexander ordered his people to pursue the birds and to pick up what fell from the flesh.

this is an example of a piece of folklore concerning diamonds since the days before time.