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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

Horses, Bots in, 303;
    dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326;
    diseases of, Hornets’ nest for, 172;
    in descriptions of Locusts, 118;
    Hornets generated from carcass of, 171, 184;
    Wasps, 170.

  Hottentots, Bee-dance of, 211;
    make floors of clay of Ant-hills, 135;
    origin of Locusts, 123;
    worship of Mantis, 84-88.

  House-fly, 41, 287-301.

  House-leek for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  _Humble-bees_, 213.

  Hundred hives of Bees, cannot have, 188.

  Hungary, Fleas in, 308;
    poisonous Fly, 303;
    shower of insects, 365.

  Hydrophobia, Oil-beetles for, 63.

  _Hymenoptera_, 142-215.

  Hymn, singing of, when hiving Bees, 190.

  Hysteria, Bed-bugs for, 267.


  Ibis in Egypt, 43, n.

  Iceland, bloody-rain in, 218.

  Ideographic, Scarab as an, 35.

  Ignatius, Lice nourished by, 317.

  Illness, omen of, from Black-beetle, 82;
    Grasshopper, 98.

  Incantations, Locusts destroyed by, 116.

  Incontinence detected by Bees, 181.

  India, Ants in, 152;
    Blister-flies, 63;
    _Buprestidæ_, 50;
    Dung-beetle, 29;
    fabled gold-loving Ants of, 146;
    Fire-flies in, 57;
    larva of beetle eaten in, 70;
    Mantis in, 83;
    Silk-worms, 235;
    Spiders, 342;
    Termites, 132-137.

  Indians, American, Butterfly totem of, 229;
    Caterpillars destroyed by, 244;
    Cicadas eaten, 254;
    Cut-worms destroyed, 247;
    Grasshoppers eaten, 99;
    name for Bees, 197.

  Ingenuity of Ants, 154.

  Ink, Galls in manufacture of, 145.

  Inquisitive persons compared to Flies, 291.

  Ireland, Bees in, 181;
    Coffin-cutter, 368;
    Gnats, 281;
    May-bugs, 48;
    Spiders, 358.

  Irish oak, Spiders repelled by, 340.

  Isis, respect of Scorpions for, 328;
    Scarab figured with the head of, 34.

  Italy, Blister-flies in, 63;
    Glow-worms, 57;
    Gnats, 281;
    Locusts, 102-130;
    Scorpions, 324;
    Silk-worms, 237.

  Ivory, Ants carved out of, 170.


  Jack-’o-lanterns, Glow-worms supposed to be, 57;
    Mole-crickets, 57.

  James I., anecdote of, 239.

  Jamaica, _Cantharis maxima_, in, 64;
    Cockroaches, 78;
    Crickets, 96;
    Dragon-flies, 140;
    frogs, 55;
    Gnats, 282.

  Japan, Grasshoppers in, 100;
    Moths and Night-flies, 242.

  Jaundice, _Blatta_ of Pliny for, 67;
    Lice, 319;
    Oil of Scorpions, 330.

  Java, larvæ of beetle eaten in, 70;
    Mantis in, 87.

  Jays preserved to kill Locusts, 114.

  Jerusalem saved by Locusts, 119.

  Jews, Locusts eaten by, 101;
    as playthings for children, 130;
    massacred on account of bloody-rain, 218;
    not permitted to burn Fleas, 311.

  Jiggers, 314.

  Julian the Apostate, army of, routed by Mosquitoes, 282.

  July, swarm of Bees in, 192.

  June, swarm of Bees in, 192.

  Jupiter in the form of an Ant, 151.


  Katy-did, 131.

  Kermes-dye, 259.

  Killing Bees for their Honey, 190.

  King Calowa, Lady-bird called, 20.

  King-fisher to keep away Clothes’-moth, 249.

  King of the Fleas, 307;
    Locusts, 127.

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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

Horses, Bots in, 303;
    dung of, for sting of Scorpions, 326;
    diseases of, Hornets’ nest for, 172;
    in descriptions of Locusts, 118;
    Hornets generated from carcass of, 171, 184;
    Wasps, 170.

  Hottentots, Bee-dance of, 211;
    make floors of clay of Ant-hills, 135;
    origin of Locusts, 123;
    worship of Mantis, 84-88.

  House-fly, 41, 287-301.

  House-leek for sting of Scorpions, 326.

  _Humble-bees_, 213.

  Hundred hives of Bees, cannot have, 188.

  Hungary, Fleas in, 308;
    poisonous Fly, 303;
    shower of insects, 365.

  Hydrophobia, Oil-beetles for, 63.

  _Hymenoptera_, 142-215.

  Hymn, singing of, when hiving Bees, 190.

  Hysteria, Bed-bugs for, 267.


  Ibis in Egypt, 43, n.

  Iceland, bloody-rain in, 218.

  Ideographic, Scarab as an, 35.

  Ignatius, Lice nourished by, 317.

  Illness, omen of, from Black-beetle, 82;
    Grasshopper, 98.

  Incantations, Locusts destroyed by, 116.

  Incontinence detected by Bees, 181.

  India, Ants in, 152;
    Blister-flies, 63;
    _Buprestidæ_, 50;
    Dung-beetle, 29;
    fabled gold-loving Ants of, 146;
    Fire-flies in, 57;
    larva of beetle eaten in, 70;
    Mantis in, 83;
    Silk-worms, 235;
    Spiders, 342;
    Termites, 132-137.

  Indians, American, Butterfly totem of, 229;
    Caterpillars destroyed by, 244;
    Cicadas eaten, 254;
    Cut-worms destroyed, 247;
    Grasshoppers eaten, 99;
    name for Bees, 197.

  Ingenuity of Ants, 154.

  Ink, Galls in manufacture of, 145.

  Inquisitive persons compared to Flies, 291.

  Ireland, Bees in, 181;
    Coffin-cutter, 368;
    Gnats, 281;
    May-bugs, 48;
    Spiders, 358.

  Irish oak, Spiders repelled by, 340.

  Isis, respect of Scorpions for, 328;
    Scarab figured with the head of, 34.

  Italy, Blister-flies in, 63;
    Glow-worms, 57;
    Gnats, 281;
    Locusts, 102-130;
    Scorpions, 324;
    Silk-worms, 237.

  Ivory, Ants carved out of, 170.


  Jack-’o-lanterns, Glow-worms supposed to be, 57;
    Mole-crickets, 57.

  James I., anecdote of, 239.

  Jamaica, _Cantharis maxima_, in, 64;
    Cockroaches, 78;
    Crickets, 96;
    Dragon-flies, 140;
    frogs, 55;
    Gnats, 282.

  Japan, Grasshoppers in, 100;
    Moths and Night-flies, 242.

  Jaundice, _Blatta_ of Pliny for, 67;
    Lice, 319;
    Oil of Scorpions, 330.

  Java, larvæ of beetle eaten in, 70;
    Mantis in, 87.

  Jays preserved to kill Locusts, 114.

  Jerusalem saved by Locusts, 119.

  Jews, Locusts eaten by, 101;
    as playthings for children, 130;
    massacred on account of bloody-rain, 218;
    not permitted to burn Fleas, 311.

  Jiggers, 314.

  Julian the Apostate, army of, routed by Mosquitoes, 282.

  July, swarm of Bees in, 192.

  June, swarm of Bees in, 192.

  Jupiter in the form of an Ant, 151.


  Katy-did, 131.

  Kermes-dye, 259.

  Killing Bees for their Honey, 190.

  King Calowa, Lady-bird called, 20.

  King-fisher to keep away Clothes’-moth, 249.

  King of the Fleas, 307;
    Locusts, 127.

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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.

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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