Chapter V (4)

“Natural History of Selborne,” 180

“Natural Magick,” 154

“New Jewell of Health,” 277

Nightingale, 251

Nile represented in old maps, 13, 36

Noah and the raven, 242

Noseless men, 73

Oannes the fish-god, 96

Odin’s wolf, 157

Oil of swallows, 249

Oils of medicinal repute, 278

Olaus Magnus, writings of, 106, 320, 333

Omens from animals, 164

One-legged men, 42, 294

“Orlando Furioso,” extract from, 207, 304

“Ortus Sanitatis,” extract from, 280

Oryges, 197

Ostrich devouring iron, 231

“Othello,” Extract from, 241, 282

Ovid, the “Metamorphoses” of, 101

Owl, 246

Oxford life in the year 1636, 46

Oyster, the susceptible, 196

Panther, 149, 232

“Paradise lost,” extract from, 334

Parkinson, on barnacle goose, 219

Parrot-fish, 209

Parsee funeral customs, 13

“Pathway to Knowledge,” extract from, 312, 336

Peacock, 240, 254

Pearl-fish, 332

Pegasus, 324

Pelican, 227, 240

Percy Society Publications, 240

Performing elephants, 138

“Periplus” of Hanno, 67

Philomela, 252

“Philosophical Grammar,” Martin, 132

Philostratus on pygmies, 55

Phisiologus on the mermaid, 80

Phœnix, 200, 240, 294

Physician-tench, 335

Pietro del Porco, 176

Pillars of Hercules, 36

Pinto, liar of first magnitude, 41

Plagiarism, 45

Playmate, dragon as a, 275

Pliny’s “Natural History,” 21, 95, 123, 150, 246

Plutarch, quotation from, 37

Poison fish, 209

Polypus and the significance thereof, 4, 5

Pomphagi, 72

Pontarf, 338

Pontoppidan, writings of, 87

“Poor Robin’s Almanack,” extract from, 170

Pope on learned blockheads, 33

Porta, extract from, 78, 122, 124, 152, 154, 160, 172, 182, 233, 283,
295, 300

Potter’s “Booke of Phisicke,” 45

Powdered mummy, 278

Praise of method, 53

Prawn, 332

Prester John, kingdom of, 293

“Pseudodoxia Epidemica,” 92

“Purchas his Pilgrimage,” 44, 318

Pygmies, 54, 294

Pyragones, 295

“Quentin Durward,” extract from, 157

Rabbit, 119

Raleigh, Sir Walter, on Guiana, 44

Ram, 198

Ram-headed man, 64

Rat, 194, 196, 282

Raven, 177, 241

Raven-stone, 244

Ray, its love for man, 331

Reginald Scot, “Discoverie of Witchcraft,” 113

Rejuvenescence of the eagle, 226

Relentless asp, 307

“Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme,” 165, 298

Remedies for hydrophobia, 189

Remora, 326

Rheumatism, remedy for, 167

“Rich Jew of Malta,” extract from, 241

Rings bearing toad-stone, 281

Robbers checkmated, 9

Robertson, “History of America,” 79

Robin, 249

Rochester rudeness to A. Becket, 68, 69

Roc or Rukh, 211

“Romance of Natural History,” Gosse, 86

Roman mosaic at Brading, 98

“Romeo and Juliet,” extract from, 192

Rondoletius, book of, 319

Roulet, the loup-garou, 109

Sachs on unicorn, 131

“Saducismus Triumphatus,” 113

Sagacity of the crane, 261

Salamander, 154, 209, 290

Sargon, 331

“Savage Africa,” Winwood Reade, 61

Sciatica, specific for, 182

Scoresby on mermaids, 84

Scorpion, 9, 277, 278, 302, 338

Scorpion-grass, 251, 277

_Scots Magazine_, extract from, 87

Screech-owl, 108

Sea elephant, 323

Sea horse, 314

Seal, Greek superstition respecting, 289

Serpent, 173, 178, 236, 267

Serpentine monstrosities, 305

Shakespeare, extract from, 11, 32, 54, 55, 130, 173, 180, 192, 208,
228, 229, 241, 246, 253, 254, 255, 266, 277, 291, 296, 304

Shakespeare on learning, 33

Sheep as great as oxen, 76

Shelley on nightingale, 253

“Ship of Fools,” 39

Shony, the storm-dog, 191

Shrew-ash, 180

Shrew-mouse, 179, 234

Silkworm, 312

Silurus, 338

Single-footed men, 20

Sir Emerson Tennant on travellers’ tales, 2

“Six Pastorals,” extract from, 250

Skelton’s poem on birds, 240

Sleeplessness, to cause, 251

Snail-shells as houses, 308

Snake charmers mentioned by Pliny, 29

Song of the nightingale, 252

Southey, extract from, 232

“Speculum Mundi,” extract from, 5, 81, 88, 131, 133, 144, 180, 194,
227, 229, 252, 265, 266, 287, 320

“Speculum Regale,” 86

Speechless men, 73

Spenser, quotation from, 80, 113, 129, 150, 226, 240, 281, 286, 301,
326, 327

Sphinx, 146

Spider, 279, 282, 308

Squirrel, 174

Stag-wolf, 160

Stanley rediscovering pygmies, 3, 60

Stellion, 154

Stolbergk on unicorn, 131

Stone in lapwing’s nest, 8

Stones of magic virtue, 247

Stork, 259

Storm-raisers, 191

Strabo on the pygmies, 55

Strewing herbs, 302

Struys’ voyages and travels, 44, 70

Subjects dealt with by Pliny, 22

Sucking fish or remora, 326

“Survey of Cornwall,” extract from, 164

Sus Marinus, 317

Suttee an ancient usage, 14

Swallow, 8, 240, 247, 260

Swallow-wort, 248

Swam-fish, 333

Swan-song, 228

Swift, quotation from, 37

Symbol of resurrection, 203

Sympathy and antipathy, 153

Syrens, 82

Tacitus on phœnix, 201

Tailed men, 43, 68, 69

“Tale of a Tub,” Swift, 37

“Taming of the Shrew,” extract from, 180

Tavernier on bird of paradise, 210

Tears of the crocodile, 286

Teasel-heads, 309

“Tempest,” extract from, 79, 209

Tench, the physician fish, 335

Tennant on works of ancient travellers, 2

Tensevetes, 294

Ten-tailed lizard, 63

“Theater of plants,” 219

Theocritus on halcyon calm, 258

Theologians, a study of zoology, 4

Theriaca, 299

Thoes, 124

“Thousand notable things,” 282

Three-eyed men, 74

Three-headed monster, 65

Thynne’s “Book of Emblems,” 210

Tiger, 118, 198

Tiger-men, 104

“Timon of Athens,” extract from, 130

Titian, device of, 161

Title-pages full of interest, old, 6, 34, 272

Titles of old books, 12

Toad, 236, 274, 279, 308

Toad-stone, 281

Toad-wort, 280, 298

To catch Sargi, 331

Tooth-ache, remedy for, 335

Topsell, extract from, 165, 168, 171, 179, 280

Torpedo, 257

Tortoise, sagacity of, 178

Tradescant’s museum, 209

Transfer of valuable animal properties to man, 8

Travellers’ tales, 3, 338

“Travels in Africa,” Barrow, 131

Travels of Le Gouz, 326

Treachery of the shrew mouse, 179

“Trip to Benwell,” extract from, 165

Troglodytes mentioned by Pliny and others, 3

“Troilus and Cressida,” extract from, 304

Tusser’s “Husbandry,” 301

“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” extract from, 296

Two-headed animals, 65

Unchangeableness of old customs, 13, 28

Urcheon, urchin, or hedgehog, 169

Use of elephant in war, 137

Value of personal observation, 199

“Varia Historia,” extract from, 95

Venice treacle, 9, 299

Venomous men, 43

Versipellis, the skin-turner, 106

Vervain in recipe, 8

Victoria Nyanza in old maps, 13

Viper in medicine, 298, 299

Virgil on bees, 261, 311

“Voiage and Travaile” of Maundevile, 15, 16, 110, 138, 202, 308

Warder, Dr., on bees, 261

Wart, to cure, 182, 190

Wasps from dead horse, 311

Waters of Lethe, 99

Weasel, 119, 188, 296, 318

Weather prognostics, 82, 170

Weeping of deer, 173

Wehr-wolves, 99, 104

Whales pacified with tubs, 37, 39

When venison should be avoided, 173

Whitney’s “Emblems,” 136

Whooping cough, remedy for, 163, 186, 188, 308

Why bears attack bee-hives, 163

Winstanley’s “Book of Knowledge,” 183, 248, 312

Wolf, 8, 118, 154, 157, 182

Wolf-headed man, 79

Wondrous beasts of mediæval fancy, 197

Woolly bear, 306

Wren, 249

Wright’s translation of De Thaun, 50

Xenophon on boar, 175

Ylio of De Thaun, 51

Yule’s translation of Jordanus, 14

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