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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

England, Aphides in, 258;
    Bed-bugs, 265, 299;
    beetles buried with the dead, 24;
    Bees, 181-184;
    bloody-rain, 217;
    _Buprestidæ_, 50;
    Caterpillars, 242;
    Crickets, 92-94;
    Death’s-head Moth, 233;
    Fleas, 314;
    Flies, 287;
    Gnats, 278;
    hedge-hogs kept to kill roaches, 78;
    Lady-birds in, 17-23;
    Locusts, 107;
    silk and silk-worms, 238;
    Spiders, 336;
    Stag-beetles, 25.

  Engravers, Scarab used by, to steady their sight, 44.

  Enormous prices paid for insects, 46, 64.

  Equator, Lice leave sailors when crossing, 317.

  _Epeira clavipes_, 362.

  _Ephemeridæ_, 138.

  Epigram compared to a Scorpion, 331;
    on an Ant, 169;
    Bee, 212;
    Silk-worm, 241.

  Epilepsy, larvæ of Bots for, 302.

  Epitaph, cure for worms, on account of an, 363.

  _Erinaceus Europæus_, 78.

  _Eruca officinalis_, 245.

  Esteem for Ant-lions, 141.

  Etruscans, Egyptian Scarab adopted by, 39.

  Etymology of Cricket, 97;
    Locust, 130;
    _Pulex_, 305.

  Eucharist, holy, respect of Bees for, 174-177.

  _Eumeta_, 245.

  _Eumolpus auratus_, 23.

  _Eunota amphyoxis_, 224.

  _Euplexoptera_, 67-77.

  _Euplœa coras_, 228.
    _prothoe_, 228.

  Europe, Antler-moth in, 246;
    Bee-caravans, 199;
    Deaths’-head moth, 233;
    Dragon-flies, 139;
    insect ornaments, 44;
    Locusts in, 102-130;
    Mantis, 83;
    Silk-worms, 235;
    Termites, 132-137;
    trade in insects, 366.

  _Eutimis nobilis_, 68.

  Evil eye, silk-worms susceptible to, 239.

  Exorcised, Ants, 169;
    Locusts, 116;
    Turnip-fly, 74.

  Eyes, cobwebs for defluxions of, 356;
    green Scarab for, 44;
    Honey in preparation for, 209;
    oil of Scorpions for, 330;
    Scarab for protuberating, 44.

  _Eynchitus aureus_, 71.


  Fairies, Ants supposed to be, 152;
    Gossamer spun by, 349.

  Famine foretold by Grasshoppers, 100;
    maggot, 143;
    Mantis, 83.

  Farriers, Cantharides employed by, 64.

  Fat, beetle eaten by women to become, 65.

  Fecundity, Scarab symbolical of, 33;
    eaten to cause, 33.

  Fever, Bugs medicine for, 367;
    Honey-dew, 257;
    Spiders, 357, 359;
    sign of, from dreams of Flies, 289.

  Fever, man dead from, Scarab symbol of, 33.

  Figs, caprification of, 144;
    for sting of scorpions, 326.

  Fighting, beetles kept for, 368;
    Mantis, 87.

  Fire, alarms of, occasioned by Gnats, 278.

  _Fire-flies_, 51-55.

  Fires occasioned by Stag-beetles, 25;
    Scorpion surrounded with, 328;
    to destroy Canker-worms, 248.

  Fish killed by a Spider, 346;
    Locusts hatched from spawn, 118;
    for sting of Scorpions, 326;
    spawn of, sold for eggs of silk-worms, 241.

  _Flata limbata_, 254.

  Flatterers compared to Flies, 291.

  _Fleas_, 266, 273, 135, 305-315.

  Fleur de lis, origin of, on arms of France, 196.

  _Flies_, 287-301, 306, 324.

  Flight, extent of the Bee’s, 200;
    Locust’s, 129.

  Floors made from clay of Ant-hills, 134.

  Flora, Ants’ remedy for, 161.

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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

England, Aphides in, 258;
    Bed-bugs, 265, 299;
    beetles buried with the dead, 24;
    Bees, 181-184;
    bloody-rain, 217;
    _Buprestidæ_, 50;
    Caterpillars, 242;
    Crickets, 92-94;
    Death’s-head Moth, 233;
    Fleas, 314;
    Flies, 287;
    Gnats, 278;
    hedge-hogs kept to kill roaches, 78;
    Lady-birds in, 17-23;
    Locusts, 107;
    silk and silk-worms, 238;
    Spiders, 336;
    Stag-beetles, 25.

  Engravers, Scarab used by, to steady their sight, 44.

  Enormous prices paid for insects, 46, 64.

  Equator, Lice leave sailors when crossing, 317.

  _Epeira clavipes_, 362.

  _Ephemeridæ_, 138.

  Epigram compared to a Scorpion, 331;
    on an Ant, 169;
    Bee, 212;
    Silk-worm, 241.

  Epilepsy, larvæ of Bots for, 302.

  Epitaph, cure for worms, on account of an, 363.

  _Erinaceus Europæus_, 78.

  _Eruca officinalis_, 245.

  Esteem for Ant-lions, 141.

  Etruscans, Egyptian Scarab adopted by, 39.

  Etymology of Cricket, 97;
    Locust, 130;
    _Pulex_, 305.

  Eucharist, holy, respect of Bees for, 174-177.

  _Eumeta_, 245.

  _Eumolpus auratus_, 23.

  _Eunota amphyoxis_, 224.

  _Euplexoptera_, 67-77.

  _Euplœa coras_, 228.
    _prothoe_, 228.

  Europe, Antler-moth in, 246;
    Bee-caravans, 199;
    Deaths’-head moth, 233;
    Dragon-flies, 139;
    insect ornaments, 44;
    Locusts in, 102-130;
    Mantis, 83;
    Silk-worms, 235;
    Termites, 132-137;
    trade in insects, 366.

  _Eutimis nobilis_, 68.

  Evil eye, silk-worms susceptible to, 239.

  Exorcised, Ants, 169;
    Locusts, 116;
    Turnip-fly, 74.

  Eyes, cobwebs for defluxions of, 356;
    green Scarab for, 44;
    Honey in preparation for, 209;
    oil of Scorpions for, 330;
    Scarab for protuberating, 44.

  _Eynchitus aureus_, 71.


  Fairies, Ants supposed to be, 152;
    Gossamer spun by, 349.

  Famine foretold by Grasshoppers, 100;
    maggot, 143;
    Mantis, 83.

  Farriers, Cantharides employed by, 64.

  Fat, beetle eaten by women to become, 65.

  Fecundity, Scarab symbolical of, 33;
    eaten to cause, 33.

  Fever, Bugs medicine for, 367;
    Honey-dew, 257;
    Spiders, 357, 359;
    sign of, from dreams of Flies, 289.

  Fever, man dead from, Scarab symbol of, 33.

  Figs, caprification of, 144;
    for sting of scorpions, 326.

  Fighting, beetles kept for, 368;
    Mantis, 87.

  Fire, alarms of, occasioned by Gnats, 278.

  _Fire-flies_, 51-55.

  Fires occasioned by Stag-beetles, 25;
    Scorpion surrounded with, 328;
    to destroy Canker-worms, 248.

  Fish killed by a Spider, 346;
    Locusts hatched from spawn, 118;
    for sting of Scorpions, 326;
    spawn of, sold for eggs of silk-worms, 241.

  _Flata limbata_, 254.

  Flatterers compared to Flies, 291.

  _Fleas_, 266, 273, 135, 305-315.

  Fleur de lis, origin of, on arms of France, 196.

  _Flies_, 287-301, 306, 324.

  Flight, extent of the Bee’s, 200;
    Locust’s, 129.

  Floors made from clay of Ant-hills, 134.

  Flora, Ants’ remedy for, 161.

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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