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Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.Cowan, Frank

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Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Name: Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.
Author: Cowan, Frank

Cowan, Frank

Insects

Corn, Indian mode of destroying Caterpillars injurious to, 244;
    Stag-beetle supposed to injure, 25;
    stored by Ants, 148-150.

  Correspondence by means of Cucuji, 53.

  Cortes, army of, saved from attack by Cucuji, 53.

  Cosmogonies, Spiders in various, 342.

  _Cossus_ of the ancients, 27, 74.

  Counterfeiting Scarab-gems, 38, n.

  Country depopulated by Spiders and Scorpions, 353.

  Courtezans, Cantharides employed by, 62.

  _Corynetes violaceous_, 41.

  Cow, in names of Lady-bird, 17;
    killed by Ants, 156;
    bewitched by killing Ants, 152;
    Scarab figured with head of, 35.

  Crabley, Mrs. Jane, stiffness in knees of, cured by Ants, 162.

  Crabs for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  _Crane-flies_, 286.

  Cray-fish, Scorpions generated from, 322.

  Creator, Scarab sacred to, 30;
    symbol of, 29.

  Creoles not attacked by Chigoes, 315.

  Crete, Galls eaten in, 145.

  _Crickets_, 92-97.

  Crimea, Gnats in, 282;
    Locusts, 116.

  Criminals tortured with Ants, 158;
    Flies, 296;
    Mosquitoes, 284.

  Crimson, Galls for dyeing, 258;
    Cochineal, 259.

  Crocodile, Scorpions generated from carcass of, 323;
    Wasps, 171;
    Scorpions enemies to, 324;
    worship of, in Egypt, 43, n.

  Crow, dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  Cuckoo to prevent breeding of Fleas, 307.

  Cucujus, 51.

  _Culex pipiens_, 278.

  _Culicidæ_, 278-286.

  Cumana, Grasshoppers eaten in, 98.

  _Curculionidæ_, 68-72.

  _Curculio anti-odontalgicus_, 71.
    _Bacchus_, 71.
    _jæcac_, 71.
    in a plum, 76.

  Cut-worm, 246.

  _Cynipidæ_, 143-145.

  _Cynips ficus caricæ_, 144.
    _gallæ tinctorum_, 144.
    _glecome_, 144.
    _insana_, 145.
    _psenes_, 144.
    _rosæ_, 144.


  Daddy-Long-legs, 321.

  Dance, Hottentot Bee-, 211.

  Dank food, Bots generated from, 303.

  _Day-flies_, 138.

  Dead, Leather-beetles buried with the, 24;
    Scarab-images, 36.

  Dead Sea fruits, 145.

  Deafness, Ants remedy for, 161;
    Ear-wigs, 76.

  Death, Bees informed of a, 185-188;
    omens of, from Bees, 181, 185;
    Black-beetle, 82;
    Butterflies, 229;
    Caterpillars, 242;
    Church-yard beetle, 65;
    Crickets, 92-95;
    Death-watch, 58-61;
    Dragon-fly, 140;
    Glow-worm, 57;
    Hawk-moth, 232;
    Mantis, 83;
    Spiders, 340.

  Death’s-head Moth, 232.

  _Death-watch_, 58-61, 93.

  Debility, Termites remedy for, 137.

  _Decticus verrucivorus_, 100.

  Deer killed by Ants, 157;
    their antidote for poisons, 353;
    Wasps generated from the head of, 171.

  Dejeau, Genl. Count, anecdote of, 368.

  Democritis, fondness of, for Honey, 209.

  Denmark, Dung-beetle in, 28.

  _Dermestes elongatus_, 24, 41.
    _pollinctus_, 24, 41.
    _roei_, 24, 41.
    _vulpinus_, 24, 41.

  _Dermestidæ_, 24.

  Devil, Fleas attributed to the envy of the, 311;
    in the shape of a Flea, 310;
    Fly, 293.

  Dew, scorched, Gossamer supposed to be, 348.

  _Diamond-beetles_, 23, 68.

  Diaphoretic, Bees as, 206.

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History

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Cowan, Frank

Insects

Corn, Indian mode of destroying Caterpillars injurious to, 244;
    Stag-beetle supposed to injure, 25;
    stored by Ants, 148-150.

  Correspondence by means of Cucuji, 53.

  Cortes, army of, saved from attack by Cucuji, 53.

  Cosmogonies, Spiders in various, 342.

  _Cossus_ of the ancients, 27, 74.

  Counterfeiting Scarab-gems, 38, n.

  Country depopulated by Spiders and Scorpions, 353.

  Courtezans, Cantharides employed by, 62.

  _Corynetes violaceous_, 41.

  Cow, in names of Lady-bird, 17;
    killed by Ants, 156;
    bewitched by killing Ants, 152;
    Scarab figured with head of, 35.

  Crabley, Mrs. Jane, stiffness in knees of, cured by Ants, 162.

  Crabs for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  _Crane-flies_, 286.

  Cray-fish, Scorpions generated from, 322.

  Creator, Scarab sacred to, 30;
    symbol of, 29.

  Creoles not attacked by Chigoes, 315.

  Crete, Galls eaten in, 145.

  _Crickets_, 92-97.

  Crimea, Gnats in, 282;
    Locusts, 116.

  Criminals tortured with Ants, 158;
    Flies, 296;
    Mosquitoes, 284.

  Crimson, Galls for dyeing, 258;
    Cochineal, 259.

  Crocodile, Scorpions generated from carcass of, 323;
    Wasps, 171;
    Scorpions enemies to, 324;
    worship of, in Egypt, 43, n.

  Crow, dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  Cuckoo to prevent breeding of Fleas, 307.

  Cucujus, 51.

  _Culex pipiens_, 278.

  _Culicidæ_, 278-286.

  Cumana, Grasshoppers eaten in, 98.

  _Curculionidæ_, 68-72.

  _Curculio anti-odontalgicus_, 71.
    _Bacchus_, 71.
    _jæcac_, 71.
    in a plum, 76.

  Cut-worm, 246.

  _Cynipidæ_, 143-145.

  _Cynips ficus caricæ_, 144.
    _gallæ tinctorum_, 144.
    _glecome_, 144.
    _insana_, 145.
    _psenes_, 144.
    _rosæ_, 144.


  Daddy-Long-legs, 321.

  Dance, Hottentot Bee-, 211.

  Dank food, Bots generated from, 303.

  _Day-flies_, 138.

  Dead, Leather-beetles buried with the, 24;
    Scarab-images, 36.

  Dead Sea fruits, 145.

  Deafness, Ants remedy for, 161;
    Ear-wigs, 76.

  Death, Bees informed of a, 185-188;
    omens of, from Bees, 181, 185;
    Black-beetle, 82;
    Butterflies, 229;
    Caterpillars, 242;
    Church-yard beetle, 65;
    Crickets, 92-95;
    Death-watch, 58-61;
    Dragon-fly, 140;
    Glow-worm, 57;
    Hawk-moth, 232;
    Mantis, 83;
    Spiders, 340.

  Death’s-head Moth, 232.

  _Death-watch_, 58-61, 93.

  Debility, Termites remedy for, 137.

  _Decticus verrucivorus_, 100.

  Deer killed by Ants, 157;
    their antidote for poisons, 353;
    Wasps generated from the head of, 171.

  Dejeau, Genl. Count, anecdote of, 368.

  Democritis, fondness of, for Honey, 209.

  Denmark, Dung-beetle in, 28.

  _Dermestes elongatus_, 24, 41.
    _pollinctus_, 24, 41.
    _roei_, 24, 41.
    _vulpinus_, 24, 41.

  _Dermestidæ_, 24.

  Devil, Fleas attributed to the envy of the, 311;
    in the shape of a Flea, 310;
    Fly, 293.

  Dew, scorched, Gossamer supposed to be, 348.

  _Diamond-beetles_, 23, 68.

  Diaphoretic, Bees as, 206.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions.: A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

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